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When a solidity smart contract reverts with a message due to a failure on a require statement, the browser calling the smart contract returns "Error: VM Exception while processing transaction: revert". However, it does not show the message associated with the require statement.

I am using Truffle v5.0.1 (Solidity v0.5.0 and Node v11.6.0).

Is there a way to get this message in the browser?

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Revert reason strings are a new-ish addition, and a big part of the ecosystem still has no support for it. Currently, the only way to get the reason string is by using the latest versions of ganache-cli with the latest versions of Truffle.

I don't know if Metamask has support to display it in the browser [citation needed], but you should be able to catch it in your code and do a console.log().

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    I updated ganache-cli also, and it now works :) Thanks – user1365247 Jan 8 '19 at 13:28
  • yes updating ganache really works – Zeeshan Ahmad Khalil Sep 14 '19 at 18:20

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