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You’re Doing Error-Handling Wrong: A Case for Predictable and Standardized Responses Introduction: An Opinionated Stance Error handling in JavaScript is a topic that evokes strong opinions, and I’m here to share mine: the traditional try-catch approach is clunky, inconvenient, and outdated. At Garmingo, where we built Garmingo Status — a SaaS solution for uptime and infrastructure monitoring—we’ve shifted away from try-catch blocks. Instead, we embraced a TypeScript-based approach that provides predictable, standardized responses for asynchronous operations. This article shares why we believe this paradigm is a game-changer for developer productivity and how it helped simplify our codebase. While it’s an…