debugIt

A no frills console debugger for Node.

Use this module when you want to selectively choose when you want to enable logging to your console. This is a handy little tool for debugging works in progress, or to only show logs when running tests.

Heavily inspired by visionmedia/debug. But instead of enabling debugging in your terminal environment, you enable debugIt in your code.

• Works across exports within your project
• Semi-Unique colors for different debug namespaces
• An easy to use, simple interface

Note: This module is only for command line debugging.

Installation

npm install --save debugit

Basic Usage

Set Up Namespaces

You can set up your debug logs using the debugit.add(namespaceName) method. They won't get printed to the console until debugIt is enabled globally.

var debugMain = require('debugit').add('debugit:main')
var debugSecondary = require('debugit').add('debugit:secondary')

Write to Your Namespaces

Now you can write to these namespaces. Each namespace will be presented in a color based on its name, so you can tell them apart.

var x = 5
var y = 'something else'

debugMain('what is the value of x?', x, 'is the value of x.')
debugSecondary('what is the value of y?', y, 'is the value of y.')

Enable It

Finally in your main.js or test file, at the very very top, just enable debugIt when you want to enable the logs.

var debugIt = require('debugit').enable()

Note: Currently there's no way to selectively choose which namespaces to turn on.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Arjun Mehta