Implement error logging

[ktsuench]

Right now if we log errors or messages they will show up in the console of the dev tools in the browser. This is not what we want as we would not be able to see the messages ourselves unless we are testing.

To best aid a user is to have those messages logged on our server so that we can refer to them when encountering an unexpected issue. Log the issue as well as the logged in user's info so we can find messages related to the user with ease.

Currently I am thinking of having a back end with a REST API hook which we can send messages to and it would write them to logs. We would then be able to access those logs in a dashboard or some form of GUI so we do not have to open the actual file. Is there already a service like this?

[smehtaca]

There are services like sentry.io and trackjs.com that provide services like this. They both provide dashboards for this purpose as well as email and slack notifications

[ktsuench]

Sounds good, we should look into using them if possible.

[smehtaca]

Relevant to our purposes: https://docs.sentry.io/clients/javascript/integrations/react/