How to use Error Boundaries with Fallback UI in React ?

Kirti K
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7 min readFeb 7, 2022

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How to use Error Boundaries with Fallback UI in React
How to use Error Boundaries with Fallback UI in React

The following article will help you to understand how to use Error boundaries in React Beginner Guide

React users, React 16 introduces a new concept of an “error boundary”. React 15 included a very limited support for error boundaries under a different method name: unstable_handleError.

Error boundaries are React components that catch JavaScript errors anywhere in their child component tree, log those errors, and display a fallback UI instead of the component tree that crashed.

Error boundaries catch errors during rendering, in lifecycle methods, and in constructors of the whole tree below them.

Before we start in detail regarding the error boundaries please find below important .

Uncaught Errors

Uncaught means the error was not caught in a catch statement, and TypeError is the error’s name. undefined is not a function.

JavaScript TypeError is thrown when an operand or argument passed to a function is incompatible with the type expected by that operator or function. This error occurs in Chrome Browser when you read a property or call a method on an undefined object .

Component Stack Traces

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Kirti K
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