What is this for?

Next Generation Console Logger. This is a wrapper for console log for modern logging.

Installation

Adding as dev dependency

npm i log-next-gen --save-dev

Usage

log Usage

In ES5,

const { log } = require("log-next-gen");

In ES6,

import { log } from "log-next-gen";

• Pass Array as argument

const users = [
  {
    name: "John",
    location: "London",
  },
  {
    name: "Micheal",
    location: "USA",
  },
];
log(users);

Output as below

• Pass Object as argument

const item = {
  name: "apple",
  type: "fruit",
};
log(item);

Output as below

• Styled logging

log("This is styled message", true);

Output as below

• Custom Styled logging

You can pass your own styles as third argument

var styles = [
  "background: linear-gradient(#035E7B, #62B6CB)",
  "border: 1px solid white",
  "color: white",
  "display: block",
  "text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3)",
  "box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4) inset, 0 5px 3px -5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5), 0 -13px 5px -10px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4) inset",
  "line-height: 40px",
  "text-align: center",
  "font-weight: bold",
  "font-size: 50px",
  "padding: 20px",
];

log("This is custom styled message", true, styles.join(";"));

Output as below

Assertion Usage

In ES5,

const { assertion } = require("log-next-gen");

In ES6,

import { assertion } from "log-next-gen";

• Pass condition as first argument and assertion fail message as second argument

assertion(3 % 2 == 0, "number is not even number");

Execution time Usage

In ES5,

const { execTime } = require("log-next-gen");

In ES6,

import { execTime } from "log-next-gen";

• Call start and end functions between the code to calculate execution time

execTime.start();
setTimeout(function () {
  execTime.end(), 3000;
});

Options

log-next-gen supports the below options, which are optional:

• isStyled - true | false (Defaults to false)
• styles - string (Pass styles as string)
• assertFailMsg - string (Default string is Condition failed!!)