"TypeError: Failed to fetch" reported over and overe

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Hi there,

Recently I faced the same error. Production channel logged this error for about 500 times in just 2 months and it really got irritating. Ours’ is a rails application with frontend powered by react.

Here is what was happening in our case. When the page loads, the refresh button changes to cross button, now if some api request is in progress during this page loading time and the user click this cross button, then chrome browser throws this error. For the same situation Firefox throws NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.This is not really an issue which we should be worried about, and so we decided to make sentry ignore this error by using the ignoreErrors attribute of sentry.

Sentry.init({
  dsn: "sentry_dsn",
  ignoreErrors: [
    'TypeError: Failed to fetch',
    'TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.'
  ],
});

Note:
Failed to fetch is also generated by CORS errors, please be mindful of that too.
Also we decided to ignore errors with statusCode in between 400 to 426 using the beforeSend callback of sentry.

I spent days trying to find this error. Hope this helps somebody.

Thank you

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