August 2016 Summaries

Christina Nguyen has joined Sentry's marketing team as a new member. Previously, she worked at JFrog as their Marketing Events Manager, where she managed global events and contributed to the growth of their annual User Conference. In her role at Sentry, Christina will focus on developing community and events programs. Outside work, she enjoys hiking, traveling, and discovering new dining experiences.

Sentry has transitioned from app.getsentry.com to sentry.io, with no configuration changes required for users. The new design of sentry.io aims to improve communication around error monitoring features and will continue to evolve over time. API endpoints remain unaffected, but are encouraged to be updated to the new URL for a seamless experience.

Sentry's new design focuses on a monochromatic scale of neutral purples as its base layer, incorporating Sentry's original red-orange in fiery tones to create contrast and attention-grabbing visuals. The brand has intentionally chosen to use illustrations instead of icons or screenshots, which provide large visual anchors and communicate complex ideas more effectively. The typeface used is Maison Neue, a unique choice that adds to the brand's personality. The new design aims to communicate clearly by avoiding buzzwords and jargon, instead using practical examples and a conversational tone to convey value. By embracing its unique story and personality, Sentry's new design seeks to connect with users on an emotional level, rather than trying to be something it's not.

Lewis Ellis is joining the engineering team at Sentry as part of an unspecified role, bringing his experience from Shape Security to the new position. He will be working on infrastructure and contributing to JavaScript and Node clients. Outside work, Lewis enjoys playing Ultimate, observing penguins, and reading about obscure statistics. His interests include Redis and Lua, although these are not explicitly stated as reasons for taking the job. Follow him on Twitter or GitHub to offer a warm welcome.

Redux is a JavaScript library that helps manage application state in complex applications. It has become increasingly popular since its introduction in 2015, especially among React developers. Redux makes it easy to know the state of your app at the time of the crash and the action(s) that preceded the crash. Middleware can be written to automatically capture these values from your application at crash time so you have more detail for JavaScript error tracking. An example middleware function, crashReporter, captures errors during dispatch and passes them to a crash reporting service along with a dump of the current application state and the action that was being triggered.

Vue.js Error Reporting with Sentry Sentry has been updated to officially support Vue.js 2.x through its browser JavaScript SDK, allowing developers to start capturing both native and Vue.js errors in their applications. To get started, add the required script snippet to the application's HTML file and install the Raven configuration. The Sentry Vue plugin also uses the new errorHandler config option introduced in Vue 2 to capture valuable metadata about the state of the application. Additionally, developers using Vue with Laravel can leverage the sentry-laravel package for end-to-end error reporting of their applications.

We have reached 10,000 stars on GitHub, indicating that developers highly value open source. This milestone is a testament to Sentry's commitment to providing software with an open source foundation. The achievement demonstrates the importance of open source in the development community, and we appreciate the support from our users who have contributed to this success.

As of React 15.2, error messages are no longer stripped from production builds, providing more helpful information for developers. This change allows users to see the original error tracking message by visiting a specific URL or view it automatically in the Sentry UI and notification emails. To utilize this feature, ensure you're running React 15.2 or later and the latest version of the Sentry JavaScript SDK is installed.

Katie Lundsgaard has joined the engineering team at a company. She recently graduated from Hackbright Academy, where she likely honed her coding skills. Katie previously worked at Kimono Labs, where she spent time with JSON and regex. In her free time, Katie enjoys knitting hats and is an avid fan of Game of Thrones. Katie will be working on Sentry as part of the engineering team.