rejoinder

A tiny library for creating gorgeous (and sometimes witty) terminal output

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rejoinder

  re·join·der
  /rəˈjoindər/
  noun
  a reply, especially a sharp or witty one.

rejoinder builds on debug and chalk to deliver consistent and beautiful output to stdout and/or stderr.

Like debug, rejoinder's output is organized by optionally-nested namespaces that can be enabled or disabled in a coarse-grain manner (via environment variables). Beyond debug, output can also be enabled or disabled programmatically in a fine-grain manner via several simple yet highly-flexible tag-based APIs. Output can be controlled in as fine-grained a manner as desired, extending up to the namespace level or all the way down to individual lines of output.

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• Install
• Usage
• Appendix
  • Published Package Details
  • License
• Contributing and Support
  • Contributors

Install

To install:

npm install rejoinder

Usage

TODO

Appendix

Further documentation can be found under docs/.

Published Package Details

This is a CJS2 package with statically-analyzable exports built by Babel for use in Node.js versions that are not end-of-life. For TypeScript users, this package supports both "Node10" and "Node16" module resolution strategies.

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That means both CJS2 (via require(...)) and ESM (via import { ... } from ... or await import(...)) source will load this package from the same entry points when using Node. This has several benefits, the foremost being: less code shipped/smaller package size, avoiding dual package hazard entirely, distributables are not packed/bundled/uglified, a drastically less complex build process, and CJS consumers aren't shafted.

Each entry point (i.e. ENTRY) in package.json's exports[ENTRY] object includes one or more export conditions. These entries may or may not include: an exports[ENTRY].types condition pointing to a type declaration file for TypeScript and IDEs, a exports[ENTRY].module condition pointing to (usually ESM) source for Webpack/Rollup, a exports[ENTRY].node and/or exports[ENTRY].default condition pointing to (usually CJS2) source for Node.js require/import and for browsers and other environments, and other conditions not enumerated here. Check the package.json file to see which export conditions are supported.

Note that, regardless of the { "type": "..." } specified in package.json, any JavaScript files written in ESM syntax (including distributables) will always have the .mjs extension. Note also that package.json may include the sideEffects key, which is almost always false for optimal tree shaking where appropriate.

License

See LICENSE.

Contributing and Support

New issues and pull requests are always welcome and greatly appreciated! 🤩 Just as well, you can star 🌟 this project to let me know you found it useful! ✊🏿 Or buy me a beer, I'd appreciate it. Thank you!

See CONTRIBUTING.md and SUPPORT.md for more information.

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Bernard 🚇 💻 📖 🚧 ⚠️ 👀

Add your contributions

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

Changelog

🏗️ Patch rejoinder[@1.1.1][19] (2025-01-11)

⚙️ Build System

• babel: break other dependency cycle between symbiote and rejoinder during build step ([3a2647a][20])
• Be consistent in use of "pre" vs "post" npm-install script naming ([4f034b1][21])
• package: add pre-npm-install script to break symbiote <=> rejoinder circular dependency ([6425499][22])
• package: skip lint task during release for now due to pre-npm-install side effects ([9223482][23])
• package: use --no-parallel during release process ([ecacc28][24])
• Regenerate assets ([78424fa][25])

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