node-inspect-extracted

node-inspect-extracted

This library provides an as-faithful-as-possible implementation of Node.js's util.inspect function.

It was built in such a way that it can be kept up-to-date with node's implementation, by taking the code directly from node's repo, and changing nothing but the require() statements. All of the node built-in functions are emulated. Many of the incompatibilities generated from that emulation are not interesting for Web use cases.

Installation

npm install node-inspect-extracted

Use

This should work in node (for testing) and browsers, using either require, import, or as window.Inspect if you include this in your page as a script tag.

With require:

const { inspect } = require('node-inspect-extracted');
console.log(inspect(1));

With import:

import * as inspect from 'node-inspect-extracted';
console.log(inspect.inspect(2));

From the browser:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/node-inspect-extracted/dist/inspect.js"></script>
<script>
  console.log(Inspect.inspect(3));
</script>

LICENSE

This code is an adaptation of the Node.js internal implementation, mostly from the file lib/internal/util/inspect.js, which does not have the Joyent copyright header. The maintainers of this package will not assert copyright over this code, but will assign ownership to the Node.js contributors, with the same license as specified in the Node.js codebase; the portion adapted here should all be plain MIT license.