mdlog

Markdown on console.log

What Is?

require('mdlog/override');

console.log([
  '# Hello, *mdlog* World!',
  '',
  'You can use Markdown syntax on `console.log`.',
  '',
  '- Markdown is **powerfull**.',
  '- Markdown is **useful**.',
  '- Markdown is **readable**.',
  '',
  '> Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.',
  'Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format,',
  'then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).',
  '',
  'see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown>.',
].join('\n'));

then terminal output is:

and browser output is:

Install

$ npm install --save mdlog

--save option is optional.

API

mdlogBuilder = require('mdlog');

mdlog = mdlogBuilder(colorScheme)

mdlogBuilder is builder of mdlog function.

An argument colorScheme is color scheme Object (see color directory), its default value is colorScheme = require('mdlog/color/default.json').

It returns mdlog function.

mdlog(markdown)

mdlog output styled markdown text into console.

It uses mdlogBuilder.conver function to convert Markdown text into styled text.

It returns undefined.

mdlogBuilder.convert(markdown, colorScheme)

convert converts markdown text into styled text with colorScheme.

It uses mdast as Markdown parser.

It returns an Array to pass into console.log as arguments.

require('mdlog/override')

console.log overrides mdlog. This module pollutes global console object. You can use original console.log as console._log.

License

MIT License. See https://makenowjust.github.io/license/mit?2015.