Show HN: I just open-sourced a small utility to make console.log better

by jbail • 13 years ago

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ianbicking2• 13 years ago

console.stream() seems super fishy to me: https://github.com/jbail/lumberjack/blob/master/scripts/lumb...

Here you are just changing a global default stream name, but it looks like you have some kind of alternate console objects. E.g., as though I could do "logger = console.stream('component'); logger.info(...);" in my code – but that isn't how it works at all, it's just chaining and a method that means something more like "console.setLogName('component')"

jbail3• 13 years ago

Thanks for the comment!

An insanely noisy console was bugging me this week, so I whipped up the Lumberjack script in about an hour this Saturday while my daughter was napping.

This is a super quick and dirty version #1 to prove that it can work and would work as I imagined. I agree the "stream" name string stuff is wonky and could be better. I've got some ideas I'll be playing with tomorrow. Basically taking what I have and wrapping it up in a constructor, so console.stream('foo') actually creates a 'foo' stream. You could then do (as I believe you suggest) var foo = console.stream('foo'); foo.log(1); foo.warn(2); etc...

ianbicking2• 13 years ago

Yeah, a constructor would largely handle that. And if you use a closure/module pattern, you could put a little "console = window.console.stream('moduleName')" at the top of the module as a quick way to customize the methods from that console. It might be nice to be able to prefix messages with the relevant stream name too.

Show HN: I just open-sourced a small utility to make console.log better

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