V8 Stack Trace Manipulation

stack-chain is a utility library for Node.js that provides an API to intercept, modify, and reformat V8 JavaScript engine's stack traces. It allows developers to programmatically extend, filter, and replace the default stack trace formatting behavior of `Error.stack`. This is particularly useful for tools that need to clean up stack traces (e.g., hide internal frames in frameworks), provide custom error reporting, or integrate with debugging utilities. The current stable version is 2.0.0. The project appears to be abandoned, with the last publish over 8 years ago and last commit in 2017. This means it may not be compatible with newer Node.js versions or modern JavaScript features like ESM, and new releases or bug fixes are highly unlikely. Its key differentiator was offering a centralized, hook-based system for manipulating global `Error.stack` behavior.