I wrote this library to pretty print JSON describing identify records. The code is inspired from archy.

Usage

You can use this as an alternative method to JSON.stringify when the fields name are obvious to the reader.

console.log(JSON.stringify(obj, null, 2))

{
  "name": "Katy Perry",
  "description": "American singer-songwriter",
  "image": {
    "contentUrl": "http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQrlKFmaiEtUImNiuD_pqzHPjDcjF4yaRThSFMh-rYuB8snFUfk",
    "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Perry"
  },
  "detailedDescription": {
    "articleBody": "Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer and songwriter. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager. ",
    "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Perry",
    "license": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License"
  },

  "url": "http://www.katyperry.com/"
}

JavaScript

const patriarchy = require('patriarchy')
console.log(patriarchy(obj))

Katy Perry
│ American singer-songwriter
│ http://www.katyperry.com/
├─┐ http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQrlKFmaiEtUImNiuD_pqzHPjDcjF4yaRThSFMh-rYuB8snFUfk
│ │ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Perry
└─┐ Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer and songwriter. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager.
  │ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Perry
  │ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License

Command-line interface

Install the tool globally npm install -g patriarchy or use with npx patriarchy if this is available in your Node.js version.

$ patriarchy '{"a1": "hello", "b1": {"a2": "world", "b2": "!"}}'
hello
└─┐ world
  │ !

Contributions

Changes and improvements are welcome! Feel free to fork and open a pull request into master.

Running the tests

You can lint the code and run all unit tests using that script.

npm test

License

patriarchy is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.

References

• James Halliday - archy package