Laravel v5.2.38 better error reporting than “Whoops, looks like something went wrong.”

Question

I think it's the most useless error message EVER.

"Whoops, looks like something went wrong."

Why can't it tell me what went wrong?

I already tried doing this but it still won't give me an error message.

I also tried adding this to the controller and view still nothing.

I also tried this in the app.php

'env' => env('APP_ENV', 'development'),
'debug' => env('APP_DEBUG', true),

I ended up doing die every line just to know what went wrong.

I checked the storage and no error logs just .gitignore

And what went wrong? Well, I was using an object variable as an array.

So why didn't it tell me that? But instead made me play a game of where's Waldo?

It does display helpful error messages "not always just like now"

Can anyone help me how to always display a helpful error message on Laravel?

Answer 1

First of all, to show error messages in detail you need to have enabled the app-debug in your .env file:
APP_LOG_LEVEL=debug

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Now the interesting part.

Add this to your App\\Exceptions\\Handler.php before the last } :

/**
 * Create a Symfony response for the given exception.
 *
 * @param  \Exception  $e
 * @return mixed
 */
protected function convertExceptionToResponse(Exception $e)
{
    if (config('app.debug')) {
        $whoops = new \Whoops\Run;
        $whoops->pushHandler(new \Whoops\Handler\PrettyPageHandler);

        return response()->make(
            $whoops->handleException($e),
            method_exists($e, 'getStatusCode') ? $e->getStatusCode() : 500,
            method_exists($e, 'getHeaders') ? $e->getHeaders() : []
        );
    }

    return parent::convertExceptionToResponse($e);
}

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