rejoinder

REJOINDER

rejoinder
/rɪˈdʒɔɪndə/
noun
a reply or response to a question or remark, esp a quick witty one; retort

Rejoinder is a generator of smart, pretty, and organized output on the console for Node/JS scripts, with optimizations for executing shell commands. It leverages colors and the like using the colors package and makes life easier when executing CLI instructions with shelljs. ShellJS and any CLI extensions are not required, however! Check out lib/Echo/EmitStrategy if you're curious :)

Super awesome when paired with inquirer and/or commander!

Also does children's parties.

Note that rejoinder requires Node.js version >=5.x (including ^6) but does NOT depend on use of the --harmony flag!

Installation

npm install rejoinder

If you want support from shelljs (required to use Execute), install that too:

npm install shelljs

Usage and Examples

const rejoinder = require('rejoinder');
let echo = rejoinder.echo;
let execute = rejoinder.execute;

echo.now('output this very important warning to the console with pretty colors'.formatAsWarning()); // colorful output
echo.withPostfix.warn('output this very important warning to the console with pretty colors'); // colorful output prefixed with the string "WARN "

echo.beVerbose = true; // beVerbose fka "debugMode"
echo.ifVerbose('Some message will appear if beVerbose is true');
echo.ifDebug('Some debug message will appear if beVerbose is true prefixed with the string "DEBUG "');
echo.beVerbose = false; // it is false by default
echo.ifVerbose('Some message will NOT appear if beVerbose is false!');
echo.ifDebug('Some debug message will NOT appear if beVerbose is false!');

echo.if(somethingistrue, 'I spit only the truth!'.formatAsSuccess()); // also returns false if somethingistrue is false

echo.now('all', 'my', 'methods', 'are', 'also', 'variadic!'); // prints "all my methods are also variadic!"
echo.if(true, 'even', 'this', 'one :)'); // prints "even this one :)"

echo.prefix = '>>'; // this will be printed directly before the message every time
echo.now('changed', 'the', 'game!'); // prints ">> changed the game!"

echo.prefix = 'Big:Boy:Time:';
echo.messageSeparator = '||'; // this is the thing between the prefix and the message
echo.usingPredicate((str) => `"${str}"`, 'the', 'time', 'for', 'fun and games is', 'over!');
// the above prints `Big:Boy:Time:||"the" "time" "for" "fun and games is" "over!"`

echo.withPostfix('postfix', 'this is', 'pretty cool'); // prints "Big:Boy:Time::postfix||this is pretty cool"
echo.postfixSeparator = '<>'; // this is the thing between the prefix and the postfix. It goes `prefix + postfixsep + postfix + msgsep + message`
echo.withPostfix('postfix', 'this too'); // prints "Big:Boy:Time:<>postfix||this too"
echo.withPostfix.ok('GOT IT!'); // prints colorful output that says "Big:Boy:Time:<>OK||GOT IT!"

echo.withPrefix('~>', () => // ONLY the echo statements that appear inside of this function will have the aforesaid prefix
{
    echo.now('or'); // prints "~>||or"
    echo.now('is', 'it? I wonder.'); // prints "~>||is it? I wonder."
    echo.withPostfix('NO', 'Wait!'); // prints "~><>NO||Wait!"
    echo.withPostfix.action("Don't make me bring Execute into this..."); // prints colorful output "~><>ACTION||Don't make me bring Execute into this..."
});

echo.beVerbose = true;
execute.now('return 0'); // prints the command and the result of executing it thanks to echo.beVerbose! See API.md for more information on how this works

Documentation

See API.md

Tests

npm install
npm test

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code.

Release History

• 0.3.x Several bugfixes
• 0.2.0 Initial working release; unit tested; semver versioning semantics are obeyed from this point forward
• 0.1.x Rapid iteration