gould

#Gould

Gould is a super simple Node module to display your backend console logs on the frontend console. It works by the following steps:

• Writing the backend logs to a file called 'temp.log'
• Establishing a socket connection with the frontend using 'socket.io'
• Utilizing the 'fs' module's 'watch' method to watch for every new log message
• Utilizing the 'fs' module's 'read' method to get each new log message from 'temp.log'
• Piping each of these messages to the front end socket
• Console logging the messages once they arrive on the front end

The process is nearly simultaneous.

Setup is easy. On your backend app.js or server.js file, ensure you initialize a server using http:

const server = http.createServer(app);

On the front end of any page where you want simultaneous logging, simply include the following lines, switching out the appropriate localhost port or remote URL as needed:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/socket.io/1.7.2/socket.io.min.js"> </script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    let socket = io.connect('http://localhost:3000');
    socket.on('stuff', function (data) {
      console.log(data);
    });
</script>

That's it. You're done.

Notes: Gould must be required after server instantiated This is for express