# template-error [![NPM version](https://badge.fury.io/js/template-error.svg)](http://badge.fury.io/js/template-error) > Make template errors easy to understand and fix. ## Install Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) ```sh $ npm i template-error --save ``` ## Usage ```js var rethrow = require('template-error'); rethrow('\n<%= a %>\n<%= b %>', { data: {a: 'aaa'} }); ``` When a template variable is not defined, like `<%= b %>` in the example above, instead of getting a cryptic error message and wasting time on debugging, you get this: screen shot 2015-08-11 at 3 35 27 am ## Related projects [rethrow](https://www.npmjs.com/package/rethrow): Re-throw an error to get better error reporting for templates. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/rethrow) ## Running tests Install dev dependencies: ```sh $ npm i -d && npm test ``` ## Contributing Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/template-error/issues/new). ## Author **Jon Schlinkert** + [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) + [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert) ## License Copyright © 2015 Jon Schlinkert Released under the MIT license. *** _This file was generated by [verb-cli](https://github.com/assemble/verb-cli) on August 21, 2015._