Unhandled errors are logged to the frontend Sentry project, via the Vue integration of the Sentry Javascript SDK. The SDK is initialised in the crossref-ui library bootstrap process, with the release set as process.env.VUE_APP_NAME@process.env.VUE_APP_VERSION and the environment as the vue app environment aka process.env.NODE_ENV.
Redaction
Some user secrets are not picked up by the Sentry input filters on their backend - eg the value of the password input component (wrapping a Vuetify v-text-field it holds the password in a field named value), so there is a beforeSend handler which uses the redact-object helper to replace secret values with [ REDACTED ].
Releases
The SDK is configured to take the release as the name and version specified in package.json. These are made available in vue.config.js.
Source Maps
The sentry webpack plugin is configured in vue.config.js to automatically build, validate and upload source maps to sentry during the build process. The authentication token is available from the CI variables. The release property matches that given to the SDK and is available in the CI environment as SENTRY_RELEASE.
The source mapping does not go all the way back to the original .vue component, as the frontend framework is built using the webpack ‘library’ target - this adds another layer of abstraction between the vue single file components and the source maps.
