What's this?

This is an opinionated console for Node with some default styling and additional features. The main focus is to be Node-compatible console with more pretty look and feel. There's also some additional features. Turn it on with one line and get all the benefits at once.

What's included?

• Fully Node-compatible API. So console-ultimate can replace console globally.
• Nicely looking log, info, warn, error. They are colored, so more distinctive in terminal. Also some unicode decorations included.
• Better stack traces and overall error formatting. Stack trace is cleared from internal entries (console.error, console.trace).
• Nice grouping (console.group) with visual indentation and pseudographics.
• console.table with adequate table width, including ansi-colored things, nice borders and colors.
• FP-friendly loggers that can passthrough value, so they can be used in pipes (.then, .map etc…).
• All other stuff, like console.count and console.time.
• Deprecated methods are also supported for compability (console.debug, console.dirxml).

Install

npm i console-ultimate

Turn on

/* replace console instance globally */
import 'console-ultimate'

/* get instance with default options AND replace globally */
import console from 'console-ultimate'

/* get instance with default options (NOT replacing global instance) */
import console from 'console-ultimate/default'

/* upgrade global instance with certain options */
import upgrade from 'console-ultimate/upgrade'

/* upgrade */
upgrade({ stdout })

/*
  instantiate your own custom instance
  via `Console`, a Node-compatible constructor */
import Console from 'console-ultimate/Console'

let console = Console({ stdout })

console.log(console)

Things to be done

• Turn coverage on.
• Better thru and partial.
• Retrieve (get formatted string instead of writing to stream).
• Advanced dir flags (like hidden & noinspect). (https://nodejs.org/api/util.html#util_util_inspect_object_options)
• Table props.
• ignoreErrors
• debug-like API with sub-instantiating, creating sybsystem-wise consoles.
• enable/disable instance.
• Proxy console.
• Browser-friendly.
• node-inspector integration.

License

ISC, © 2019 Strider.