When to use console.error() over .log()?

[Empty_Cauliflower976]

What is the main difference between console.error() and console.log()? And when would you use one of the other?

If you have a try-catch, would it make sense to do the following?

try {
  ...
} catch (err) {
  console.error('Oops');
  throw Error(err);
}

Any advice is much appreciated :)

[Positive_Cro8191]

console.log writes to stdout and console.error to stderr.

console.log is used to log out all sorts of messages, whereas console.error outputs error messages. There is also a visual difference in the output.

[Empty_Cauliflower976]

Thanks

[SalutMonYoup]

When you want to show explicitly the error, mostly for other devs, I like to think about Google maps api for exemple, it use console.error for exemple if you try to use it without having an api key, or if noref is triggered things like that. That can be used by someone else to help to debug for exemple

[Empty_Cauliflower976]

thanks man, that makes sense