Restrict what can be thrown as an exception (no-throw-literal)

It is considered good practice to only throw the Errorobject itself or an object using the Error object as base objects for user-defined exceptions. The fundamental benefit of Error objects is that they automatically keep track of where they were built and originated. This rule restrict what can be thrown as an exception by preventing to throw literals.

Rule Details

This rule is aimed at maintaining consistency when throwing exception by disallowing to throw literals.

The following patterns are considered warnings:

throw "error";

throw 0;

throw undefined;

throw null;

The following patterns are not considered warnings:

throw new Error();

throw new Error("error");

var e = new Error("error");
throw e;

try {
    throw new Error("error");
} catch (e) {
    throw e;
}

Version

This rule was introduced in ESLint 0.15.0.

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