Improve console/logging support

[rfwatson]

Describe the feature you'd like

Improved integration with console/logging in the browser, especially:

• ability to console.log any JsValue*, without pre-encoding to a &str in Rust
• support for variadic args when logging

*or the std_web equivalent, if possible

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. (Optional)

Debugging large objects (e.g. arrays containing audio data) is painful from Rust right now

Describe alternatives you've considered (Optional)

N/A

Additional context (Optional)

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Questionnaire

• I'm interested in implementing this myself but don't know where to start
• I would like to add this feature
• I don't have time to add this right now, but maybe later

[jstarry]

@rfwatson have you seen the following crates:
https://crates.io/crates/wasm-logger (web-sys)
https://crates.io/crates/web_logger (stdweb)

[siku2]

@jstarry This issue is based on a discussion we had on the Discord server (here). The problem with these crates is that the formatting happens on Rust's end. This prevents browsers from displaying JavaScript objects with the same inspection tools as you would get when logging them through console.log.

[jstarry]

Ah that makes sense, thanks

[siku2]

Where should we go with this now that weblog is a thing?
Should we deprecate the ConsoleService and re-export the weblog macros instead?

Either way I think we should deprecate/remove the current ConsoleService now that there are plenty more powerful alternatives around.

[jstarry]

Should we deprecate the ConsoleService and re-export the weblog macros instead?

I'd like to see all the services eventually move to external dependencies so I'm totally fine with this

[rfwatson]

Happy to work on a patch to integrate the weblog crate if it's useful.

[siku2]

I'd like to see all the services eventually move to external dependencies

@jstarry yeah, that's what I'm thinking as well. Glad we're on the same page there.

@rfwatson there are still a few features missing from weblog which are present in ConsoleService. Particularly the count*, group*, and time* function families and assert. Having these would make the transition a lot smoother.

There are also some other console features which ConsoleService doesn't implement either but they aren't holding this back.

[hamza1311]

#1842 and rustwasm/gloo#142 resolved this for the most part. I think the only thing left is toreplace the console calls inside yew with gloo (from log)