在2018年，我认为这是最好的方式;支持IE9+和现代浏览器。

更新:请参阅此测试和repo以了解不同实现的比较。

function CustomError(message) {
    Object.defineProperty(this, 'name', {
        enumerable: false,
        writable: false,
        value: 'CustomError'
    });

    Object.defineProperty(this, 'message', {
        enumerable: false,
        writable: true,
        value: message
    });

    if (Error.hasOwnProperty('captureStackTrace')) { // V8
        Error.captureStackTrace(this, CustomError);
    } else {
        Object.defineProperty(this, 'stack', {
            enumerable: false,
            writable: false,
            value: (new Error(message)).stack
        });
    }
}

if (typeof Object.setPrototypeOf === 'function') {
    Object.setPrototypeOf(CustomError.prototype, Error.prototype);
} else {
    CustomError.prototype = Object.create(Error.prototype, {
        constructor: { value: CustomError }
    });
}

还要注意__proto__属性已弃用，该属性在其他答案中广泛使用。

Crescent Fresh的答案是误导性的。尽管他的警告是无效的，但还有其他一些限制他没有提到。

首先，Crescent的“警告:”段落中的推理没有意义。这种解释意味着，与多个catch语句相比，编码“一堆if (error instanceof MyError) else…”在某种程度上是累赘或冗长的。单个catch块中的多个instanceof语句与多个catch语句一样简洁——干净简洁的代码，没有任何技巧。这是模拟Java出色的特定于可抛出子类型的错误处理的好方法。

WRT“显示子类的消息属性没有得到设置”，如果使用正确构造的Error子类，则不会出现这种情况。要创建自己的ErrorX Error子类，只需复制以"var MyError ="开头的代码块，将"MyError"改为"ErrorX"。(如果您想向子类添加自定义方法，请遵循示例文本)。

The real and significant limitation of JavaScript error subclassing is that for JavaScript implementations or debuggers that track and report on stack trace and location-of-instantiation, like FireFox, a location in your own Error subclass implementation will be recorded as the instantiation point of the class, whereas if you used a direct Error, it would be the location where you ran "new Error(...)"). IE users would probably never notice, but users of Fire Bug on FF will see useless file name and line number values reported alongside these Errors, and will have to drill down on the stack trace to element #1 to find the real instantiation location.

我想再补充一下大家已经说过的话:

为了确保自定义错误类在堆栈跟踪中正确显示，您需要将自定义错误类的原型的name属性设置为自定义错误类的name属性。 我的意思是:

CustomError.prototype = Error.prototype;
CustomError.prototype.name = 'CustomError';

完整的例子是:

    var CustomError = function(message) {
        var err = new Error(message);
        err.name = 'CustomError';
        this.name = err.name;
        this.message = err.message;
        //check if there is a stack property supported in browser
        if (err.stack) {
            this.stack = err.stack;
        }
        //we should define how our toString function works as this will be used internally
        //by the browser's stack trace generation function
        this.toString = function() {
           return this.name + ': ' + this.message;
        };
    };
    CustomError.prototype = new Error();
    CustomError.prototype.name = 'CustomError';

当所有的都说了，做了，你抛出你的新异常，它看起来像这样(我懒惰地尝试在chrome开发工具):

CustomError: Stuff Happened. GASP!
    at Error.CustomError (<anonymous>:3:19)
    at <anonymous>:2:7
    at Object.InjectedScript._evaluateOn (<anonymous>:603:39)
    at Object.InjectedScript._evaluateAndWrap (<anonymous>:562:52)
    at Object.InjectedScript.evaluate (<anonymous>:481:21)

为了避免针对每种不同类型的错误的样板文件，我将一些解决方案的智慧结合到createErrorType函数中:

function createErrorType(name, init) {
  function E(message) {
    if (!Error.captureStackTrace)
      this.stack = (new Error()).stack;
    else
      Error.captureStackTrace(this, this.constructor);
    this.message = message;
    init && init.apply(this, arguments);
  }
  E.prototype = new Error();
  E.prototype.name = name;
  E.prototype.constructor = E;
  return E;
}

然后，您可以轻松地定义新的错误类型，如下所示:

var NameError = createErrorType('NameError', function (name, invalidChar) {
  this.message = 'The name ' + name + ' may not contain ' + invalidChar;
});

var UnboundError = createErrorType('UnboundError', function (variableName) {
  this.message = 'Variable ' + variableName + ' is not bound';
});

就像有些人说的，ES6很简单:

class CustomError extends Error { }

所以我在我的应用程序(Angular, Typescript)中尝试了这个，但它不起作用。经过一段时间后，我发现问题来自Typescript:O

参见https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/13965

这很令人不安，因为如果你这样做:

class CustomError extends Error {}
​

try {
  throw new CustomError()
} catch(e) {
  if (e instanceof CustomError) {
    console.log('Custom error');
  } else {
    console.log('Basic error');
  }
}

在节点中或直接在浏览器中显示:自定义错误

尝试在你的项目中使用Typescript在Typescript游乐场上运行，它会显示基本错误…

解决方法如下:

class CustomError extends Error {
  // we have to do the following because of: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/13965
  // otherwise we cannot use instanceof later to catch a given type
  public __proto__: Error;

  constructor(message?: string) {
    const trueProto = new.target.prototype;
    super(message);

    this.__proto__ = trueProto;
  }
}

在上面的例子中。apply (also Error.call)不为我做任何事情(Firefox 3.6/Chrome 5)。我使用的一个变通方法是:

function MyError(message, fileName, lineNumber) {
    var err = new Error();

    if (err.stack) {
        // remove one stack level:
        if (typeof(Components) != 'undefined') {
            // Mozilla:
            this.stack = err.stack.substring(err.stack.indexOf('\n')+1);
        }
        else if (typeof(chrome) != 'undefined' || typeof(process) != 'undefined') {
            // Google Chrome/Node.js:
            this.stack = err.stack.replace(/\n[^\n]*/,'');
        }
        else {
            this.stack = err.stack;
        }
    }
    this.message    = message    === undefined ? err.message    : message;
    this.fileName   = fileName   === undefined ? err.fileName   : fileName;
    this.lineNumber = lineNumber === undefined ? err.lineNumber : lineNumber;
}

MyError.prototype = new Error();
MyError.prototype.constructor = MyError;
MyError.prototype.name = 'MyError';