Installation

Raven is distributed in a few different methods, and should get included after any other libraries are included, but before your own scripts.

So for example:

<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script
  src="https://cdn.ravenjs.com/3.26.4/raven.min.js"
  crossorigin="anonymous"
></script>
<script>
  Raven.config("https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0").install();
</script>
<script src="app.js"></script>

This allows the ability for Raven’s integrations to instrument themselves. If included before something like Angular, it’d be impossible to use for example, the Angular plugin.

Using our CDN

We serve our own builds off of Fastly. They are accessible over both http and https, so we recommend leaving the protocol off.

Our CDN distributes builds with and without integrations.

<script
  src="https://cdn.ravenjs.com/3.26.4/raven.min.js"
  crossorigin="anonymous"
></script>

This version does not include any plugins. See ravenjs.com for more information about plugins and getting other builds.

Bower

We also provide a way to deploy Raven via bower. Useful if you want serve your own scripts instead of depending on our CDN and maintain a bower.json with a list of dependencies and versions (adding the --save flag would automatically add it to bower.json).

bower install raven-js --save

Also note that the file is uncompressed but is ready to pass to any decent JavaScript compressor like UglifyJS.

npm

Raven is also available as an npm package, raven-js.

npm install raven-js --save

CommonJS

To use Raven with CommonJS imports:

var Raven = require("raven-js");
Raven.config("https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0").install();

ES2015 (ES6)

To use Raven with ES2015 (ES6) imports:

import Raven from "raven-js";
Raven.config("https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0").install();

Async Loading

To load Sentry JS SDK asynchronously, you need to do two things.

Provide global SENTRY_SDK variable with SDK’s URL (for example from our CDN), your DSN and SDK’s configuration. And place the snippet below as soon as possible in your HTML code. For example:

<script>
  window.SENTRY_SDK = {
    url: "https://cdn.ravenjs.com/3.26.4/raven.min.js",
    dsn: "https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0",
    options: {
      release: "1.3.0",
    },
  };
  (function (a, b, g, e, h) {
    var k = a.SENTRY_SDK,
      f = function (a) {
        f.data.push(a);
      };
    f.data = [];
    var l = a[e];
    a[e] = function (c, b, e, d, h) {
      f({ e: [].slice.call(arguments) });
      l && l.apply(a, arguments);
    };
    var m = a[h];
    a[h] = function (c) {
      f({ p: c.reason });
      m && m.apply(a, arguments);
    };
    var n = b.getElementsByTagName(g)[0];
    b = b.createElement(g);
    b.src = k.url;
    b.crossorigin = "anonymous";
    b.addEventListener("load", function () {
      try {
        a[e] = l;
        a[h] = m;
        var c = f.data,
          b = a.Raven;
        b.config(k.dsn, k.options).install();
        var g = a[e];
        if (c.length)
          for (var d = 0; d < c.length; d++)
            c[d].e
              ? g.apply(b.TraceKit, c[d].e)
              : c[d].p && b.captureException(c[d].p);
      } catch (p) {
        console.log(p);
      }
    });
    n.parentNode.insertBefore(b, n);
  })(window, document, "script", "onerror", "onunhandledrejection");
</script>

Or you can place those two things in a separate script tags. This will queue all errors (and promises if the environment supports unhandledrejection handler) that happened before SDK was loaded and send them once it’s configured and installed.

Be aware however, that there are some trade-offs to this solution, as errors might provide less information due to them being “retriggered” instead of being caught from the original source.

Requirements

Raven supports IE8+ and all other modern browsers, and works in Web Workers.

Raven requires the browser JavaScript environment to provide:

• Either XHR Level 2 (IE10+, all other modern browsers) or XDomainRequest (IE8, IE9)
• A global JSON object with JSON.stringify (IE8+ standards mode, all other modern browsers)

Raven does not support IE 7 or other older browsers which do not provide the required features listed above. On those older browsers, Raven.js is designed to fail gracefully; including it on your page will have no effect, but it won’t collect and report uncaught exceptions.