cdir

Synopsis

An interactive representation of an object for the CLI similar to that of console.dir() in webkit.

Motivation

Why? Sometimes you have a lot of data that gets dumped to the screen. It's hard to keep track of it visually. A lot of the time you are just looking for one item in a sea of data. Progressive disclosure helps.

Usage

Navigation

First, require the module. Then use console.dir(somecode) in your program and then use tab or shift+tab to cycle through the object's members. You can hit space, return or enter to expand a member. See the example below.

Searching throught JSON

Search by pressing the / key. This will display a / prompt. If you have already searched for something it will be displayed before the / prompt. For instance if you searched for "foobar" it would appear as (foobar) /.

How to quit

Hit ctrl+c or q to quit!

An example

There is a CLI version too if you want to use it. npm install cdir -g.

console.dir = require('../dir');

var stuff = { 
  "name" : "cdir", 
  "description" : "An interactive console.dir() for the terminal.",
  "tags" : [
    "console",
    "debug",
    "debugging",
    "json",
    "interacive",
    "prompt"
  ],
  "foo": function() { 
    return "node tests/test.js"
  }
};

console.dir(stuff);

The output looks something like this.