bootstrap-logs

Many developers are familiar with the bootstrap alert colors. This package brings that color coding familiarity to your console.

Based on the fantastic chalk package.

Why

I found myself using the console for newbie debugging and using tabs, new lines, asterisks, or many other things to organize the output into something readable. I learned about chalk and its amazing ability to add color to the command line. However, as a lazy developer (a good thing), I wanted to minimize typing and complexity as much as possible as well to streamline and generalize the creating of the colorful logs.

Install

$ npm install --save bootstrap-logs

Usage

There are five type of colored logs that can be created:

log("This is a normal line");

Prints the line without any colorization.

log.danger("Something bad has happened and you should be aware of it.");

Prints the line with a red background.

log.warning("Something significant requires your attention.");

Prints the line with a yellow background.

  log.info("These are details that you may want to know.");

Prints the line with a cyan background.

  log.success("This is a valid result! This show you got what you wanted.");

Prints the line with a green background.

In a nutshell:

• log(): No color. Handy for bulk or complimentary text.
• log.danger(): Red. Useful to indicate errors and failures.
• log.warning(): Yellow. Useful to indicate warnings or potential failures.
• log.info(): Blue. Ideal to indicate key steps in a process or nice-to-knows.
• log.success(): Green. Great for showing results or satisfactory completion of a task.

But wait, there is more!

You can customize your logs by adding an indicator in front of the string that is going to be logged by using the log.custom() function.

log.custom({
  danger : "[  ERROR  ] ",
  info   : "[  INFO   ] ",
  warning: "[ WARNING ] ",
  success: "[ SUCCESS ] ",
});

log.custom() takes an object with four properties (one for each of the log types). Each property takes a string as its value. The string is whatever you want to display before the log message. Using the example above, we would obtain the following logs:

It gets even more fun! You could use emojis as part of your custom header!

log.custom({
  danger : `[ ${String.fromCodePoint(0x1F480)}  ]`,
  info   : `[ ${String.fromCodePoint(0x1F4DD)}  ]`,
  warning: `[ ${String.fromCodePoint(0x1F4E2)}  ]`,
  success: `[ ${String.fromCodePoint(0x2705)}  ]`,
});

Give us:

You can find the full list of Code Points for emojis at the Unicode site.

I hope that you find this package fun and useful for your projects.

License

MIT © DecaHub by Darias