How to not show stack trace in Gulp task error callback? - node.js

Question

When I error out in one of my tasks:
gulp.task('foo', function(onDone) {
onDone('It did not work');
});
I get a large irrelevant stack trace:
[13:10:25] 'foo' errored after 4.27 s
[13:10:25] Error: It did not work
at formatError (C:\npm\node_modules\gulp\bin\gulp.js:169:10)
at Gulp.<anonymous> (C:\npm\node_modules\gulp\bin\gulp.js:195:15)
at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
at Gulp.emit (events.js:188:7)
at Gulp.Orchestrator._emitTaskDone (D:\Code\my-project\node_modules\orchestrator\index.js:264:8)
at D:\Code\my-project\node_modules\orchestrator\index.js:275:23
at finish (D:\Code\my-project\node_modules\orchestrator\lib\runTask.js:21:8)
at cb (D:\Code\my-project\node_modules\orchestrator\lib\runTask.js:29:3)
at D:\Code\my-project\gulp-tasks\insert-docs.js:116:25
at Request._callback (D:\Code\my-project\gulpfile.js:112:17)
How do I not show that? I'd prefer to use the in build gulp features rather than a third party module or console.error().

Answer 1

Gulp checks for the presence of a showStack property on Error objects passed to the callback. This was probably introduced to support that option on gutil.PluginError, but can be used with any Error object:
function withError(msg) {
var err = new Error(msg);
err.showStack = false;
return err;
}
gulp.task('foo', function(done) {
done(withError('It did not work'));
});