Integrating Watchtower into a NestJS App
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Unhandled errors in a NestJS API tend to be discovered the same way: a user complains, someone greps the logs, and by the time anyone's looking, the request context is gone. @sadeem-watchtower/node closes that gap — it captures unhandled HTTP errors, process-level crashes, and manual events, and ships them to a dashboard instead of a log file nobody's tailing.
This post walks through wiring it into a NestJS app: installation, config validation, module registration, and the shutdown handling that keeps you from dropping events on deploy. It also covers a couple of non-obvious integration details that aren't in the SDK's README.
