If you're a TypeScript developer building applications, you know how quickly complexity can grow. Tracking down errors, understanding performance bottlenecks, and getting visibility into your application's health in production can feel like detective work without the right tools. This is where Sentry comes in.
Sentry is a powerful application monitoring platform that helps you identify, triage, and prioritize errors and performance issues in real-time. While it supports a wide range of languages and platforms, its JavaScript SDKs, which are fully compatible with TypeScript, offer a wealth of features specifically tailored for the nuances of the web browser and Node.js environments where TypeScript thrives.
The goal of this whitepaper is to walk you through the top features of Sentry from the perspective of a TypeScript developer. We'll explore how to set up Sentry, how it automatically captures crucial data, how you can enrich that data with context specific to your application, techniques for managing data