Feature/error boundary

packages/frontend/src/components/App.tsx

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { hot } from 'react-hot-loader';
 import { Redirect, Route, Switch } from 'react-router';
 import { Router } from 'react-router-dom';
 import history from '../util/history';
+import { ErrorBoundary } from './general/ErrorBoundary';
 import { AppPath, APP_ROUTES } from '../util/routes';
 
 // Global bootstrap: install subsystems and load configuration
@@ -16,7 +17,9 @@ export const AppComponent = () => (
     <Router history={history}>
       <Switch>
         {APP_ROUTES.map((routeProps, index) => (
-          <Route key={index} {...routeProps} />
+          <ErrorBoundary>
+            <Route key={index} {...routeProps} />
+          </ErrorBoundary>
         ))}
         {/* Error 404 Fallback */}
         <Redirect to={AppPath.HOME} />

packages/frontend/src/components/general/ErrorBoundary.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+import * as React from 'react';
+
+/**
+ * Properties of Error Boundary
+ */
+export interface ErrorBoundaryProps {
+  /**
+   * Callback used to render ui for the error once it occured
+   */
+  readonly errorRenderer?: (error: Error) => React.ReactNode;
+}
+
+interface State {
+  readonly error?: Error;
+}
+
+function renderError(error: Error): React.ReactNode {
+  return error.message;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ErrorBoundary component catches all errors that occur somewhere bellow in the DOM
+ * tree and displays an error message instead of taking the entire page down.
+ *
+ * Use by wrapping it around failable components in JSX
+ * or use the withErrorBoundary(...) to wrap component components
+ */
+export class ErrorBoundary extends React.Component<ErrorBoundaryProps, State> {
+  constructor(props: ErrorBoundaryProps) {
+    super(props);
+    this.state = {};
+  }
+
+  static getDerivedStateFromError(error: Error) {
+    return { error };
+  }
+
+  componentDidCatch(error: Error, info: React.ErrorInfo) {
+    console.error('Caught error:', error, 'with info:', info);
+    console.trace();
+  }
+
+  render() {
+    const { error } = this.state;
+    if (error) {
+      return renderError(error);
+    }
+    return <>{this.props.children}</>;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * ErrorBoundary component catches all errors that occur somewhere bellow in the DOM
+ * tree and displays an error message instead of taking the entire page down.
+ *
+ * Use by wrapping it around failable components in JSX, i.e., <ErrorBoundary>...</ErrorBoundary>
+ * or using this component wrapper
+ *
+ * @param WrappedComponent component to wrap
+ * @param errorRenderer callback to render error ui
+ */
+export function withErrorBoundary<TProps>(
+  WrappedComponent: React.ComponentType<TProps>,
+  errorRenderer: (error: Error) => React.ReactNode = renderError,
+): React.ComponentType<TProps> {
+  return (props: TProps) => (
+    <ErrorBoundary errorRenderer={errorRenderer}>
+      <WrappedComponent {...props} />
+    </ErrorBoundary>
+  );
+}