console-ultimate

What's this?

This is an opinionated console for Node with some default styling and additional features. The main focus is to be Node-compatible console with more pretty look and feel. There's also some additional features. Turn it on with one line and get all the benefits at once.

What's included?

• Fully Node-compatible API. So console-ultimate can replace console globally.
• Nicely looking log, info, warn, error. They are colored, so more distinctive in terminal. Also some unicode decorations included.
• Better stack traces and overall error formatting. Stack trace is cleared from internal entries (console.error, console.trace).
• Nice grouping (console.group) with visual indentation and pseudographics.
• console.table with adequate table width, including ansi-colored things, nice borders and colors.
• FP-friendly loggers that can passthrough value, so they can be used in pipes (.then, .map etc…).
• All other stuff, like console.count and console.time.
• Deprecated methods are also supported for compability (console.debug, console.dirxml).

Differences between v3 and v4

By the time of v3 the package was implemented with the help of transitional package called esm. The package, in fact, CJS, but uses this package for sugars and as an experiment with early ESM syntax.

v4 is a direct upgrade to standard ESM with the same functionality and modern dependencies.

Both versions provide export maps.

Install

npm i console-ultimate

Turn on

/* replace console instance globally */
import 'console-ultimate'

/* get instance with default options AND replace globally */
import console from 'console-ultimate'

/* get instance with default options (NOT replacing global instance) */
import console from 'console-ultimate/default'

/* upgrade global instance with certain options */
import upgrade from 'console-ultimate/upgrade'

/* upgrade */
upgrade({ stdout })

/*
  instantiate your own custom instance
  via `Console`, a Node-compatible constructor */
import Console from 'console-ultimate/Console'

let console = Console({ stdout })

console.log(console)

Things to be done

• Better thru and partial.
• Retrieve (get formatted string instead of writing to stream).
• Advanced dir flags (like hidden & noinspect). (https://nodejs.org/api/util.html#util_util_inspect_object_options)
• Table props.
• ignoreErrors
• debug-like API with sub-instantiating, creating sybsystem-wise consoles.
• enable/disable instance.
• Proxy console.
• Browser-friendly.
• node-inspector integration.

License

ISC, © 2025 Strider.