Throw front end error and Send Email in the same Apex transaction

Question

Throwing AuraHandledException will stop email from being sent, so that I can't throw AuraHandledException to alert LWC and send a email in the same transaction.

My option will be either a) separating the call into 2 sequential calls. b) sending a custom message instead of throwing exception.

Did I miss anything or do you think there's a better approach?

Answer 1

Publish a Platform event using "Publish Immediate" - this will not be rolled back. Use a Flow or Apex Trigger to subscribe to the Platform Event and send the email. FWIW - I've written a lightweight Logging Framework that uses this same principle to write error logs to a custom object. Logging Framwork GitHub project