Occasionally I find myself needing to log out deeply nested objects to the console. Sadly, the default logger, console.log() does not expand the entire object if it has many levels of depth.

This package will help you to log objects down to any number of levels.

Installation

Add package to your project

yarn add log-full

Import the package in your code. Preferably at the beginning of your app.

require('log-full');

Note: There is no assignment. The package extends console and adds a console.logFull() function.

Usage

require('log-full');

const deepObject = {
   "results" : [
      {
         "address_components" : [
            {
               "long_name" : "1600",
               "short_name" : "1600",
               "types" : [ "street_number" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Amphitheatre Pkwy",
               "short_name" : "Amphitheatre Pkwy",
               "types" : [ "route" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Mountain View",
               "short_name" : "Mountain View",
               "types" : [ "locality", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Santa Clara County",
               "short_name" : "Santa Clara County",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_2", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "California",
               "short_name" : "CA",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "United States",
               "short_name" : "US",
               "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "94043",
               "short_name" : "94043",
               "types" : [ "postal_code" ]
            }
         ],
         "formatted_address" : "1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA",
         "geometry" : {
            "location" : {
               "lat" : 37.4224764,
               "lng" : -122.0842499
            },
            "location_type" : "ROOFTOP",
            "viewport" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 37.4238253802915,
                  "lng" : -122.0829009197085
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 37.4211274197085,
                  "lng" : -122.0855988802915
               }
            }
         },
         "place_id" : "ChIJ2eUgeAK6j4ARbn5u_wAGqWA",
         "types" : [ "street_address" ]
      }
   ],
   "status" : "OK"
};

console.log(deepObject);
/*
{ results:
   [ { address_components: [Object],
       formatted_address: '1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA',
       geometry: [Object],
       place_id: 'ChIJ2eUgeAK6j4ARbn5u_wAGqWA',
       types: [Object] } ],
  status: 'OK' }
*/

console.logFull(deepObject);
/*
{ results:
   [ { address_components:
        [ { long_name: '1600',
            short_name: '1600',
            types: [ 'street_number' ] },
          { long_name: 'Amphitheatre Pkwy',
            short_name: 'Amphitheatre Pkwy',
            types: [ 'route' ] },
          { long_name: 'Mountain View',
            short_name: 'Mountain View',
            types: [ 'locality', 'political' ] },
          { long_name: 'Santa Clara County',
            short_name: 'Santa Clara County',
            types: [ 'administrative_area_level_2', 'political' ] },
          { long_name: 'California',
            short_name: 'CA',
            types: [ 'administrative_area_level_1', 'political' ] },
          { long_name: 'United States',
            short_name: 'US',
            types: [ 'country', 'political' ] },
          { long_name: '94043',
            short_name: '94043',
            types: [ 'postal_code' ] } ],
       formatted_address: '1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA',
       geometry:
        { location: { lat: 37.4224764, lng: -122.0842499 },
          location_type: 'ROOFTOP',
          viewport:
           { northeast: { lat: 37.4238253802915, lng: -122.0829009197085 },
             southwest: { lat: 37.4211274197085, lng: -122.0855988802915 } } },
       place_id: 'ChIJ2eUgeAK6j4ARbn5u_wAGqWA',
       types: [ 'street_address' ] } ],
  status: 'OK' }
*/

Options

An option object can be passed as a second parameter. List of available options follow the util.inspect() function from https://nodejs.org/api/util.html#util_util_inspect_object_options

console.logFull(deepObject, { depth: 3 });

The default options set by the package are:

{
  depth: null, // recurse indefinitely
  colors: true, // colorize output by types
}