render coloured error messages to the terminal.

.gitignore

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+node_modules
+node_modules/*
+npm_debug.log

errors.node.js

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+
+var it = require ('it-is')
+  , trv = require ('test-report-view')
+  , errors = [
+      null
+    , 7
+    , Math.random()
+    , true
+    , false
+    , NaN
+    , undefined
+    , {}
+    , function(){}
+    , catchError(function () {
+        (null).x = 7 //type error
+      })
+    , catchError(function () {
+        'onehu'() //type error
+      })
+    , catchError(function stackOverFlow() {
+        stackOverFlow()
+      })
+    , {error: 'not_found', reason: 'this is a couch error'}
+    , new Error('EXAMPLE ERROR')
+    ]
+
+function catchError(funx) {
+  try { funx() } catch (err) { return err }
+  throw new Error( 'expected funx to throw' )
+}
+
+errors.forEach(function (e){
+  var str = trv.viewError(e)
+  console.log('example error output:', str)
+  it(str).ok().typeof('string')
+  if('string' !== typeof e) {
+    if(/\[object( \w+)?\]/(str))
+      throw Error(str + ' should not match: /\[object( \w+)?\]/')
+  }
+})

package.json

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+{ "name": "test-report-view_tests"
+, "version": "0.0.0"
+, "description": "tests for test-report-view"
+, "homepage": "http://github.com/dominictarr/test-report-view_tests"
+, "repository": 
+  { "type": "git"
+  , "url": "https://github.com/dominictarr/test-report-view_tests.git" }
+, "dependencies": {}
+, "devDependencies": {}
+, "author": "Dominic Tarr <dominic.tarr@gmail.com> (http://bit.ly/dominictarr)"
+, "scripts": { "test": "meta-test test/*.js" } }

simple.node.js

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+
+var trv = require('test-report-view')
+  , it = require('it-is')
+  , Reporter = require('test-report')
+
+;(function simple() {
+  var reporter = new Reporter ('example')
+
+  reporter.test('test1').test('test2')
+  console.log(reporter)
+  var str = trv.view(reporter.report)
+  console.log(str)
+
+  it(str).matches(/example/).matches(/test1/).matches(/test2/)
+
+})()
+
+;(function nested() {
+  var reporter = new Reporter ('example')
+
+  reporter.test('test1').test('test2').subreport('nested').test('inner')
+  var str = trv.view(reporter.report)
+  console.log(str)
+
+  it(str).matches(/example/).matches(/test1/).matches(/test2/).matches(/nested/).matches(/inner/)
+
+})()
+
+;(function errors() {
+  var reporter = new Reporter ('example')
+    , err = new Error('EXAMPLE ERROR')
+  reporter.test('fail', err)
+  var str = trv.view(reporter.report)
+  console.log(str)
+
+  it(str).matches(/example/).matches(/fail/)
+  it(str.indexOf('Error: EXAMPLE ERROR\n')).notEqual(-1)
+  // str contains at least the first line of the error.
+  it(str.indexOf(trv.viewError(err).split('\n')[0])).notEqual(-1)
+})()