Error Constructor does not accept more than one argument

[moeenn]

Reading the MDN, I noticed that we can pass multiple arguments to the Error constructor

MDN - Error

• The first argument is the error message
• The second argument is an object which includes the property cause

Testing out whether the Node implementation of Error allows this, I came up with this code

const cause = { id: 1, example: "other" }
const err = new Error("Misc. Error description", { cause })

console.log(err.message)  // Misc. Error description
console.log(err.cause) // { id: 1, example: "other" }

I tried instantiating an Error instance as follows

new Error(
  "Required environment variables not set",
  { cause },
)

I got the following error

Expected 0-1 arguments, but got 2.ts(2554)

It appears that the type declarations for Error constructor should be updated to accommodate this.

[MartinJohns]

• You forgot to fill out the issue template.
• The constructor overload with cause is only supported with ES2022 or later.
• cause currently must be of the Error type. See Error.prototype.cause has inaccurate value type #48098.

[moeenn]

@MartinJohns I didn't realize cause was a new addition to the standard. Thanks for clarifying this.

[Crusader4Christ]

• The constructor overload with cause is only supported with ES2022 or later.

In my tsconfig I have

  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "ES2022",

But anyway I got this error. What the way to fix?

[GabrielDelepine]

But anyway I got this error. What the way to fix?

Please provide the rest of your tsconfig.json file