awesome_starter

🎩 awesome_starter🎢

A simple NodeJS starter kit featuring better logging, multiple prototypes for strings, arrays, objects, numbers and dates.

Why?

Nobody likes to repeat themselfs. Here is my package with the most common helpers that I use.

How to install & use:

• $ npm install -S awesome_starter
• In your main js file require awesome_starter with require('awesome_starter');

Features:

Logs:

• New logs methods. console.success() and console.fail()
• Timestamp on every log
• Colors for different log levels

General Error handling:

• generalCatchCallback(e, functionName) return a console.error when is needed. E.g. when you have to write many .catch(). First parameter an Error and second parameter a string for the function name.
• expressResponseError_silent(response, message) It returns a json error message for express. It accepts the response from express as first parameter and an optional string as message.
• expressResponseError(response, error ,message) It returns a json error message for express with a console.error of the error. It accepts the response from express as first parameter, an Error as second parameter and an optional string as message.

Multiple prototypes for the types:

Check the folder prototypes/

Contribute:

• Fork this repo
• Make your improvements
• Make a PR