This is what I mean: doSomething(function (err) { doSomethingElse(function (err) { doYetAnotherThing(function (err) { throw new Error(

This is what I mean: doSomething(function (err) { doSomethingElse(function (err) { doYetAnotherThing(function (err) { throw new Error( "I don't bubble up to the top of the stack, " + "because there is no stack!"); }); }); }); BTW a great trick is to tick the little "Async" box in the Chrome Dev Tools, so you can get a full stacktrace showing exactly where you came from. It works for both callbacks and promises: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/async-call-stack/ http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/async-...