Better error output

[antonmedv]

Will be cool to add colors to error output of uncatched errors.

[pi0]

I would suggest trying consola. We can hook into all console calls to catch and format both logs and errors/stacks. (in conflict with #52 but is easily solvable)

[antonmedv]

Looks nice, but kind of too heavy. Will be cool to find something lightweight and focusing only on pretty-printing errors.

[pi0]

but kind of too heavy

By install size? It is almost same install size of chalk (#52) due to actually using it :D Anyway this might be helpful for formatting stack to reduce verbosity:

• Parse: https://github.com/unjs/consola/blob/4477e87a5153d31d22a2692565959d90599a6b61/src/utils/error.js#L3
• Format: https://github.com/unjs/consola/blob/4477e87a5153d31d22a2692565959d90599a6b61/src/reporters/fancy.js#L31

[antonmedv]

Also from the screenshot looks like it not printing code snippet there error thrown.

Will be cool to have code also printed as it does in standard error printing.

[pi0]

Hmm, reading and printing code around could be nice. But it involves a more complex setup to try reading from file-system using a search path since usually stack traces are not absolute or relative to cwd also we may use source-map to reverse to original source.

Please let me know about your decision would be happy to help to implement either directly in zx or as a consola reporter (extending fancy for code-snippet support). Consola had been battle-tested for a long time in different setups and the core overhead is not that much comparing to essential infra is providing for the same purpose of improving CLI output.

[antonmedv]

Both ways are fine.

[antonmedv]

Errors mostly okay now.