ZConsole

A console instance with name and color assignment.

Use

Normal Use

Just do it:

const ConsoleInstance = require('zconsole');

var myConsole = new ConsoleInstance('My Console');

console.log('Hi!');	// Says "Hi!"

myConsole.log('Hi!');	// Says "[My Console] Hi!"

myConsole.color = 'blue';
myConsole.log('Hi!');	// Says a blue "[My Console] Hi!"

Overwriting

Or even overwrite the normal one:

const	ConsoleInstance = require('zconsole'),
		console = new ConsoleInstance('My Console');

console.log('Yo bro!');	// Says "[My Console] Yo bro!"

Standalone function

For short, you can use:

const log = myConsole.getLogger;
// OR
const log = myConsole.logger;

And so:

log('Hey ya')	// Says "[My Console] Hey ya"

Methods

Internal Methods

Get a stand-alone log() function

For getting a stand-alone log() function, with the display name but no need of using

console_name.log()

Use getLogger() or the get logger property.

const log = console_instance.getLogger();

//--OR--

const log = console_instance.logger;

Now, just logging with a single function:

log('Hey ya')	// Says "[My Console] Hey ya"

Using the Display name

To get or alter the display name of the instance of the console, use the getter / setter display

// Getting the console name
var my_console_name = console_instance.display;

// Writing it into another console
another_console.display = my_console_name
	.split('')
	.reverse()
	.join('');

Setting a color to the console

At a similar way, there are a getter / setter pair to the color of the console:

console_instance.color = 'indigo';
console_instance.color = '#a2e100';

And so, console_instance.log should output a colored text.

Static values

MAX_DISPLAY_LENGTH

Defines what is the max length for the string property display.

Defaults to 16.

colorNames

Just the names of the colors. ~~Nothing usefull at all.~~

Copied Methods

Here, are all the methods copied from the JS object console:

• assert
• count
• debug
• dir
• dirxml
• error
• exception
• group
  • group
  • groupCollapsed
  • groupEnd
• info
• log
• time
  • time
  • timeEnd
• trace
  • Acctually, here is a pseudo method
• warn

Bonus

How I use it:

const	ConsoleInstance = require('zconsole'),
		console = new ConsoleInstance(appname);

console.color = 'cyan';

const log = console.logger;

log('It starts now.');

Where appname is the name of the app I'm working into.