Log client side error At Server Side Using Angular JS - angularjs

i'm newbie in angular js, have created a project in angular js and want to maintain log on server for all the issues occuring at the client side.
Gone through various blogs and found few suggestions for applying stack js but couldn't understand the implementation for same.
Please suggest if it is possible to log all the errors in project from one single point of client side, at the server through factory or service method using angular js.

This is possibly by overriding angulars built in $exceptionHandler. Below is the snippet of code from my own app that logs any failures to the backend, but also prints them into the console, in case the backend logging fails. As my javascript is minified, I use StackTrace to turn this back into an un-minified stack trace, and send that to my backend.
function exceptionLoggingService($injector) {
function error(exception, cause) {
// preserve the default behaviour which will log the error
// to the console, and allow the application to continue running.
var $log = $injector.get('$log');
var $window = $injector.get('$window');
$log.error.apply($log, arguments);
var errorMessage = exception.toString();
StackTrace.fromError(exception).then(function (arrayStack) {
var exceptionData = angular.toJson({
errorUrl: $window.location.href,
errorMessage: errorMessage,
stackTrace: arrayStack,
cause: ( cause || "" )
});
// now post this exceptionData to your backend
}).catch(function (backendLoggingError) {
$log.warn("Error logging failure.");
$log.log(backendLoggingError);
});
}
return(error);
}
angular.module('dashboard-ui').factory('$exceptionHandler', ['$injector', exceptionLoggingService])

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I then have a controller that calls that resource passing in a success and fail function:
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console.log(data);
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},
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should the code be the one below? i didn't test it, just guess.
myModule.factory('CompanyService',
function ($resource) {
return $resource('https://baseurl.com/api/values/');
}
)
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CompanyService.query(
function(data) {
$scope.companies = data;
console.log(data);
return data;
},
function(error){
console.log("Error:");
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}
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window.MY_SERVICES = {
proxy: proxy,
};
});
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it("Testing the script", function(done) {
browser.executeScript(function() {
window.MY_SERVICES.proxy.networkAvailable = false;
});
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expect(element.all(by.id('error')).count()).toEqual(1);
done();
});
});
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My question is how would you setup tests for this? I would think that I would need to Mock out the APIService? I'm having a hard time because I keep getting unexpected POST request to my /keepalive function (called within APIService.keepAlive())?
Is there any way to use $httpBackend in order to return the right response to the actual KeepAlive call? This would prevent me from having to mock-out the API service?
Should I pull the .run() block out which obtains the current logged in user out of the AuthModule and put it into the main application? It seems no matter where I put the run() block, I can't seem to initialize the $httpbackend before I load the module?
Should the AuthModule even be its own module at all? or should I just use the main application module and register the factory there?
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I suggest you take a look at this authentication service, using a service is the way to go.
Hopefully this would help ... Good luck

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