[feature request] @sentry/universal for Universal JS

[gfx]

I am migrating from raven-js to @sentry/browser for browsers, and I'm planning to use @sentry/node for nodejs. Because my project is universal, most of the JavaScript files are shared with browsers and nodejs.

This means I can't write import { captureMessage } from '@sentry/browser' nor import { captureMessage } from '@sentry/node' in the universal JS files.

FYI There's a 3rd party module for it: https://github.com/malectro/universal-sentry and it's package.json is good to start.

[HazAT]

Hey, thank you for the feature request.
In general, this is not a bad idea but we will not likely implement something like this in the near feature.

This would be one package more to maintain we would need to polyfill or "gatekeep" some functions which seem unnecessary work.

What you could do is, I suppose you have two builds/bundles running one for node and one for browser.
You could just import and use @sentry/minimal, share this code between browser and node but at the entry point of browser/node you either call:

browser.js

import { init } from '@sentry/browser';
init ...

node.js

import { init } from '@sentry/node';
init ...

The minimal package delegates all the call to the client initialized.

Hope this helps, closing this since this is not on our roadmap right now.

[gfx]

@sentry/minimal sounds good for this usage. Thanks.

BTW it has no captureMessage() and Severity for non-fatal messages. Do you have a plan to add them to minimal?

[kamilogorek]

@gfx umm?

sentry-javascript/packages/minimal/src/index.ts

Line 44 in 67360d0

export function captureMessage(message: string, level?: Severity): string {

[gfx]

@kamilogorek Oh, thanks! I didn't know why I can't find them! 😓

[kamilogorek]

@gfx no worries :)