Print Tools Js

Easy-to-use console logging presets and formatting. ✏️😋

Install

• npm i -S print-tools-js

Usage

var p = require('print-tools-js')
p.success('Test passed!')

Methods

• Preset methods
  • Prints text with respective preset wrapper
  • Method names
    • success()
      • Includes green check character ✔ and blush emoji 😊
    • info()
      • Includes blue info character ℹ and thinking emoji 🤔
    • warning()
      • Includes warning character ⚠, yellow "Warning" dialog, and sweating emoji 😓
    • error()
      • Includes skull character 💀, red "ERROR" dialog, and fearful emoji 😨
  • Arguments
    • text (string) - Text to print
    • args (Object) - additional optional arguments
      • dec (string = 'none') - preceding text decorator, includes ['arrow', 'chevron', 'bullet']
      • indent (Number = 0) - number of indentation preceding text
      • offset (Number = 0) - characters to offset time log at end of line, useful for printing irregular unicode characters
      • log (Boolean = true) - if true includes log string at end of line
      • emoji (Boolean = true) - if true includes respective emoji at end of line
      • ret (Boolean = false) - if true returns formatted string, returns true after printing otherwise
  • Example

     p.error('Test', { dec: 'chevron', indent: 1, offset: 1, log: true, emoji: true, ret: false })

• Decorator Methods
  • Prints text with respective preceding decorator
  • Method names
    • arrow()
      • Includes '--->' before text
    • chevron()
      • Includes '>>>' before text
    • bullet()
      • Includes '•' before text
  • Arguments
    • text (string) - Text to print
    • args (Object) - additional optional arguments
      • indent (Number = 0) - number of indentation preceding text
      • log (Boolean = true) - if true includes log string at end of line
      • ret (Boolean = false) - if true returns formatted string, returns true after printing otherwise
  • Example

     p.bullet('Test', { indent: 1, log: false, ret: true })

• Log Method
  • Prints text with time log at end of line (and optional emotional emoji before time)
  • Method name
    • log()
  • Arguments
    • text (string) - Text to print
    • args (Object) - additional optional arguments
      • ret (Boolean = false) - if true returns formatted string, returns true after printing otherwise
      • offset (Number = 0 || 1) - characters to offset time log at end of line, useful for printing irregular unicode characters
      • emoji (String/Boolean) - defaults to Boolean = false, if not false is a string, will print respective emoji
  • Example

   p.log('Test', { offset: 0, emoji: 'thumbsup', ret=false })

• Title Box Method
  • Prints title box with preset optional fields
  • Method name
    • titleBox()
  • Arguments
    • title (string) - Title to print
    • args (Object) - additional optional arguments
      • theme (string = 'main') - box/title color theme, includes ['main', 'success', 'info', 'warning', 'danger']
        • main defaults to cyan color
      • titleDesc (string) - Description printed next to title
      • tagLine (string) - Tag line printed below title line in grey
      • author (string) - Author name
      • email (string) - Author email
      • ret (Boolean = false) - if true returns formatted string, returns true after printing otherwise