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Kerium
Kerium is a small library containing some POSIX-style code. The focus is on providing shared utilities for other projects.
Logging
Kerium exposes a flexible logging API that uses the same levels as syslog.
Errors
The entire set of POSIX errnos are exposed through the Errno enum.
The ErrnoException class extends the built-in Error with errnos, and provides JSON functionality.
You can use strerror to get a human-readable description of an errno.
FAQs
POSIX-style errors, logging, and more
The npm package kerium receives a total of 280,064 weekly downloads. As such, kerium popularity was classified as popular.
We found that kerium demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 07 Sep 2026
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