It's Log

It's better than bad, it's good!

I work in environments with heaps of console spam, making it annoying to find my own logs in the haystack. This package lets you prefix all your logs with a stylish identifying string without changing the function signature of your console methods.

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Installation

CD into your project folder and install the package.

npm install itslog --save

Require the Package

Now that you've installed the package, you've got to require it in your code. You can do that like this:

ES6-Style:

import itslog from 'itslog';

CommonJS Style:

const itslog = require('itslog');

For browser people with no build system, this package creates a global variable called ItsLog if no other module loading system is available. Oh, you can also use AMD. I'm not gonna put an example here, you get the point. It's a UMD module with a global as a backup.

Usage Instructions

const console = itslog('test');

// Simple methods.
console.count('count');
console.log('log');
console.info('error');
console.info('info');
console.warn('warn');

// Complex methods.
console.assert(someVar === someOtherVar, 'log');
console.dir(obj);
console.dirxml(obj);
console.group(someVar);
console.groupCollapsed(someVar);
console.groupEnd(someVar);
console.table(["let's", "make", "a", "table"]);
console.trace(someVar);

Simple methods will prepend your prefix to the arguments. Complex methods will log your prefix and then invoke whatever function you really wanted to call. This is because a random string at the beginning of, say, a table doesn't make any sense.