console-browserify
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The console-browserify npm package is a browser-compatible version of the Node.js 'console' module, providing a way to emulate console functions in a browser environment. This is particularly useful for developers who need to maintain consistency in logging mechanisms between server-side and client-side JavaScript.
Logging
Outputs a message to the web console. This is useful for simple debugging or displaying information.
console.log('Hello, world!');Error Reporting
Outputs an error message to the console. This is used for reporting errors in a manner that is visually distinct from regular log messages.
console.error('Error: Something went wrong!');Information Display
Used for informational messages that might not require the immediate attention that errors do.
console.info('This is an info message');Warning Messages
Used to display warning messages about potential issues in the browser console.
console.warn('Warning: Please check your entry.');Debugging
Provides a way to output debugging information. This can be more detailed and specific than a general log.
console.debug('Debugging value:', value);A tiny JavaScript debugging utility modelled after Node.js core's debugging technique. It's similar to console-browserify but offers more control over enabling/disabling log levels and is styled differently.
A minimal lightweight logging for JavaScript, similar to console-browserify, but includes configurable log level methods to control the logging output.
Emulate console for all the browsers
You usually do not have to install console-browserify yourself! If your code runs in Node.js, console is built in. If your code runs in the browser, bundlers like browserify or webpack also include the console-browserify module when you do require('console').
But if none of those apply, with npm do:
npm install console-browserify
var console = require("console")
// Or when manually using console-browserify directly:
// var console = require("console-browserify")
console.log("hello world!")
See the Node.js Console docs. console-browserify does not support creating new Console instances and does not support the Inspector-only methods.
PRs are very welcome! The main way to contribute to console-browserify is by porting features, bugfixes and tests from Node.js. Ideally, code contributions to this module are copy-pasted from Node.js and transpiled to ES5, rather than reimplemented from scratch. Matching the Node.js code as closely as possible makes maintenance simpler when new changes land in Node.js.
This module intends to provide exactly the same API as Node.js, so features that are not available in the core console module will not be accepted. Feature requests should instead be directed at nodejs/node and will be added to this module once they are implemented in Node.js.
If there is a difference in behaviour between Node.js's console module and this module, please open an issue!
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Emulate console for all the browsers
The npm package console-browserify receives a total of 6,104,212 weekly downloads. As such, console-browserify popularity was classified as popular.
We found that console-browserify demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 41 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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