Status Logger

Manage complex CLI output with arrays and automatically print any changes to stdout via ansi-diff-stream.

WARNING: Awesomeness elsewhere. status-logger was nice but it wasn't enough, it still felt like node but I wanted frontend javascript fun. Introducing... 🥁 ... neat-log. neat-log is much neater and I'd definitely recommend using that. It uses status-logger under the hood.

Example

The example here will initially print:

Status Logger Example:
starting...

Then once it gets started, it will print the time every second:

Status Logger Example:
Time = 10 seconds

var output = ['Status Logger Example:', 'starting...']
var log = statusLogger(output)
setInterval(function () {
  log.print()
}, 100)
log.print()
start()
 
function start () {
  var sec = 0
  setInterval(function () {
    sec++
    output[1] = `Time = ${sec} seconds`
  }, 1000)
}

Run node basic-example.js or node example.js to see full examples. You can find more complex usage in these modules:

• ~Dat CLI~ Using neat-log now (built on this)
• bkr

Installation

npm install status-logger

API

var log = statusLogger(messages, opts)

messages is an array with of lines to print. They will be printed in order with a newline spacer between each. Message arrays are flattened so they can be any mix of nested arrays and strings.

Options

• quiet: do not print anything
• debug: print everything to console.log or console.error

log.print()

Print messages from all groups.

var output = log.clear(messages)

Clear all output and create a empty output array (or with new messages).

log.diff

ansi-diff-stream instance

log.messages

Stored reference to the original messages array.

License

MIT