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    EventTarget is an error teleporter

Here is an exmaple of the code which will teleport Error from the place it should be handled to the place it whouldn't occur.
const target = new EventTarget()

target.addEventListener('event', () => {
  throw new Error('Some error')
})

try {
  target.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent("event"))
  console.log("✅")
} catch (_) {
  console.log("❌") // 👈 This is where we get with EventTarget
}
How it could be fixed? It could fixed with event source which produces async iterator for reading events:
const source = new EventSource()

for await (const event of source.listen("event")) {
  throw new Error('Some error') // Now error should be handled in-place
}

// Somewhere in the code...
try {
  source.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent("event"))
  console.log("✅") // 👈 This is where we get with EventSource
} catch (_) {
  console.log("❌")
}

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