mumbler

mumbler

send all those console.log outputs through socket.io on any endpoint, you know, just to keep an eye on things...

Mumbler will intercept stdout/stderr and send it through a socket.io connection.

Do NOT USE WITH DEBUG=*

It just explodes, trust me.

Note

I built Mumbler just to experiment with, but then I thought someone could benefit from it.

Remember: I didn't fully test the package, I got it to work on both a simple Express app and a Restify one.

This package HAS NOT BEEN THOROUGHLY TESTED, USAGE ON PRODUCTION IS, THEREFORE, NOT RECOMMENDED

The main purpose is just for development as the package does not enforce any security and it will send any stdout/stderr data to connected clients on the designated endpoint.

Install

npm install mumbler --save

Usage with Express

var mumbler = require('mumbler')

// attach to some endpoint
app.get('/mumbler', mumbler(http));

http.listen(3000, function(){
  console.log('Open http://localhost:3000/mumbler on your browser')
});

// spit some output constantly so we can check output
setInterval(function(){console.log(new Date())}, 1000)

Usage with Restify

Restify usually keeps a reference to the http server instance on server.server. Remember, this hasn't been fully tested, I built this just to check on my own developments and then decided it could be useful for someone else.

var restify = require('restify')

// create the http server
var server = restify.createServer(/* some config here */)

server.get('/mumbler', require('mumbler')(server.server))