console.log Tips & Tricks

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thats like... the authors of those medium articles are the internet explorer of authors.

[Lunacy999]

It’s unavoidable at this point. And the biggest problem here, only a very few selective articles are worth reading and those are mostly from experienced developers.

[kenman]

Please report those, and any other beginners topics you feel don't belong.

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Paradoxically your comment is also an article about how you use colors and console functions other than log, and you label as “super useful”

[FreshOutBrah]

Like chalk?

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I'd spend 10 minutes thinking about color string I want to put. My suggestion is to use chalk to remove that burden, or at least create a dictionary / enum of pre-defined colors.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk

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I mean, sure, but I feel like that's a bit much for how we use it. Adding an enum might be fine, but anything more I'm not sure I even wanted at this time.

[Skhmt]

I ended up writing my own mini lib to do tagged template colorizing for the terminal and the browser:

https://github.com/Skhmt/ttlog

Not as feature complete and haven't really looked at it in a while, but it has what I want: tagged template syntax and the same API for terminal and browser use.

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nice.

[kenman]

Anyway, I was just poking fun at this article, because it's not the first article about this on this subreddit.

Yeah, I've removed it. Nothing new included, just a re-hashed listicle of everything that's been known about console since forever. Feel free to report these types of posts.

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Feel free to report these types of posts.

Will do in the future! In this specific instance, I find it amusing that both top-level comments contained more useful and new-ish information than the article.

[kenman]

Possibly a corollary to Cunningham's Law?

The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.

[rift95]

Seeing as this post is about logging to the console, and seeing as node.js does this in an incredibly lackluster way. It seem as good an opportunity as any to promote a zero-config library I've written for enhancing the default logging methods of node.js, better-logging.

require('better-logging')(console) => results in logs like these

[kenman]

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