When a Node process experiences an error, the function where the error occurred, and the function that called that function (and so on) is written to STDERR as the final output of the application.

This is called a stack trace. By default, Node's JavaScript engine (V8) retains a total of 10 frames (references to functions in a stack).

However, in many cases we need far more than 10 frames to understand the context from a stack trace when performing root-cause analysis on a faulty process. On the other hand, the larger the stack trace, the more memory and CPU a process has to use to keep track of the stack.

In this recipe, we're going to increase the size of the stack trace, but only in a development environment.