Better console.log in Node

better-console-log.js

// UPD:
// Now available as npm module!
// Check out https://github.com/RReverser/better-log for details.

console.log = (function (log, inspect) {
  return function () {
    return log.apply(this, Array.prototype.map.call(arguments, function (arg) {
      return inspect(arg, { depth: 1, colors: true });
    }));
  };
})(console.log, require("util").inspect);

Really nifty. Just wanted to copy the screenshots from your tweet here to show what it does.

JSON.stringify(obj, null, 2) so that it works both in browser as well as window

@rajeshsegu Um, JSON.stringify is completely irrelevant here, not sure why you posted it. It's not intended for debugging, fails on any recursive references, can't log a lot of object types such as RegExps, Dates etc., does not limit depth, does not colorize different types of literals and is just so much less functional than native console.log in browser or even in Node.js.

Whaaaaat! That's awesome. I love the simplicity for such a genuinely helpful function. Thanks for sharing!