From 573893088ba84beea97f90bb782caa29afb4b5a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bretton <36870434+BrettM86@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:56:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(error): always return a string from errorMessage

The fallback branch returned the raw error value, and non-string values
crashed the toast's markdown renderer (src.replaceAll is not a
function), turning real failures into empty toasts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/lib/app/error.ts | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/app/error.ts b/src/lib/app/error.ts
index e19d893d..fef23eeb 100644
--- a/src/lib/app/error.ts
+++ b/src/lib/app/error.ts
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ export function errorMessage(error: any, instance?: string): string {
     const translated = t.get(key)
     return translated === key ? String(error) : translated
   } catch {
-    return error as any
+    // Consumers render this (e.g. inside toast markdown), so it must always
+    // be a string — a raw object here crashes the toast into an empty box.
+    if (typeof error === 'string') return error
+    if (error instanceof Error) return error.message
+    try {
+      return JSON.stringify(error) ?? String(error)
+    } catch {
+      return String(error)
+    }
   }
 }
-- 
2.51.2