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Bored of console.log?

K.V.Harish on June 23, 2020

A useful and fun thing about console.log is that you can add CSS styles to it. You can do it with the help of %c variable which gets replaced with ...
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Teclado • Edited
console.log('###################');

Has just die. RIP.

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Adam Crockett 🌀
console.table()
console.chairs()

Decorating with consoles 🥁

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Alex Blokh

Remember myself reading a blogpost about how credit cards of millions of people were stolen using an npm package for styling console output. Good old days ☕️

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Andrew • Edited

I remember reading this as well... Do you know the title? I'd like to read it again

EDIT: nvm i found it medium.com/hackernoon/im-harvestin...

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K.V.Harish

That's 😱. Thanks Alex and Andrew for sharing. No better way to emphasise on choosing dependencies smartly and carefully.

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Prasanna Kulkarni

npmjs.com/package/chalk
this one I used in many node js projects.

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K.V.Harish

chalk is a good option to go for.

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Mike

Wrote this for fun a while ago that uses one tagged template to color both node.js terminals and frontend dev console text - github.com/Skhmt/ttlog

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K.V.Harish

Cool 👍

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Julian Pufler

Wow! I didn't know that!
I think this is a webkit only thing though, as it surely does not work in terminal. Still an awesome trick!

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K.V.Harish • Edited

Yes seems like it. Like others suggested you can try Chalk or any other alternatives available.

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artie

That's cool

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Zaza Siv.

Yeah that's cool and all but I don't think anyone would ever choose to debug this way just because they might be "bored of console.log"

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K.V.Harish

Ha Ha please do not take the title of this post literally. 😃

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Richard

This is awesome debugging my JavaScript will be super fun now. It may take a lot longer but it's worth it!

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K.V.Harish

👍