1.6.0 • Published 8 years ago
loglady v1.6.0
loglady
One Day the Sadness Will End - Log Lady - Art Print - 8x10, by DecisionandRevision at Etsy
Utility for logging categorized and formatted output in cli apps or when debugging.
Installation
npm install loglady
Usage
const loglady = require('loglady');
loglady.setMuted(isMuted);
loglady.setVerbose(isVerbose);
loglady.setLogFunc(logFunc);
loglady.setIgnoreFuncRegex(regex);
loglady.clearHistory();
loglady.log(...args);
loglady.logVerbose(...args);
loglady.json(json);
loglady.error(err);
loglady.pipeStdout(data);
loglady.section(heading);
loglady.action(heading);
loglady.command(cmd);
loglady.fncall(fn);
loglady.intermediate(message);
loglady.showIntroHeader(title, barChar = '#');
loglady.endWithABang(msg);
loglady.endInTotalDespair(err);
loglady.spyOn(obj, name = null);
Examples
Get a taste of loglady by running node examples/log-all-the-things.js
and you'll see something like:
Roadmap
- Some sort of (configurable) timestamps
- Log data sets as ascii tables
- Customizable styling (colors and text-decoration)
- Customizable ascii images
- Browser support
- Log history
- Saving log history to a file
- Option to buffer output and log later
- Smart logging based on type of input (string, error etc)
- Spy on an object and log all its function calls
- Styled boolean logging
- Ability to theme output using TextMate/Sublime/Atom color schemes
Developing
Tasks
Building the distributed version
npm run dist
Releasing a new version
npm run release -- (major|minor|patch|x.x.x)
Todo
- Watch -> build
- JS linting
- Visual examples in README
- Interactive tryout