Hi @User . Apologies for the late reply. We have purposely made the init function not throw an error since this way, your node app can start regardless of ST working at that time or not. Otherwise in a production environment when processes are starting simultaneously, there will be a race condition between your node process and ST.
One way to fix this issue of yours is to automatcally start ST on mac bootup. Or else using a docker container with restart mode on.