woodchopper

WoodChopper

Selective logging based on command line arguments and keys.

Written in CoffeeScript, usable in JavaScript.

Usable with all the console methods, as seen in this list from Mozilla.

Installation

$ npm install woodchopper

Use

Run your node program in the command line with the --print or -p flag and the keys you want to print:

$ node program.js --print important secure

Then in your code give your print statements their keys:

var chop = require('woodchopper');

chop.log(['important', 'superfluous'], 'This is the first print message');
chop.log(['superfluous', 'detail'], 'This is the second print message');
chop.log(['detail', 'secure'], 'This is the third print message');

This would result in the following messages being printed:

'This is the first print message'
'This is the third print message'

Running the program like this:

$ node program.js --print detail

Will result in:

'This is the second print message'
'This is the third print message'

If you give a print statement only one key you do not need to put it in an array:

    chop.log('superfluous', 'This is the fourth print message');