Log objects aside in console.

aside.js

function aside(...args) {
    // Usage examples:
    // ---------------
    //   console.log(aside(var1, var2));
    //   console.log(aside({var1, var2, someValue: 23}));
    //   console.log(aside.bind("My title")(var1, var2));
    //   console.log(
    //      aside.bind({
    //          title: "My title",
    //          separator: "#",
    //          ruler: "#",
    //          maxColumnLength: 30,
    //          tabSize: 4,
    //          bottomRuler: false,
    //      })({a, b, c, d});
    //  );
    // ---------------
    let options = this || {};
    if (typeof options == "string") options = {title: options};
    const prm = {
        title: false,
        separator: " | ",
        ruler: "-",
        tabSize: 2,
        maxColumnLength: Infinity,
        ...options
    };
    if (prm.bottomRuler === undefined) {
        // Set it explicitly to false to disable bottom ruler:
        prm.bottomRuler = prm.ruler;
    };
    let labels = "";
    if (
        args.length == 1
        && typeof args[0] == "object"
    ) {
        labels = Object.keys(args[0]);
        args = Object.values(args[0]);
    };
    args = args.map(a=>(
        typeof a != "object" ? String(a)
        : JSON.stringify(a, null, prm.tabSize)
    ));
    const rows = args.map(a=>a
        .split("\n")
        .map(r=>r.substring(0, prm.maxColumnLength))
    );
    const widths = rows.map(r=>Math.max(...r.map(s=>s.length)))
    const maxHeight = Math.max(...rows.map(r=>r.length))
    for (let i=0; i<rows.length; i++) {
        const rl = rows[i].length;
        rows[i].length = maxHeight;
        rows[i].fill("", rl, maxHeight);
        rows[i] = rows[i].map(s=>s.padEnd(widths[i]));
    };
    let output = [];
    output.length = maxHeight;
    output = output.fill("")
        .map(
            (foo,i)=>rows.map(r=>r[i])
                .join(prm.separator)
        )
    ;
    if (labels) labels = [
        labels
            .map((l,i)=>l.padEnd(widths[i]))
            .join(prm.separator)
        , output[0].replace(/./g, prm.ruler[0]
        , ""
    ].join("\n");
    const bottomRuler = (
        prm.bottomRuler ? "\n"+ output[0]
            .replace(/./g, prm.bottomRuler[0])
        : ""
    );
    const title = (
        prm.title ? prm.title + "\n"
        : ""
    );
    return title
        + labels
        + output.join("\n")
        + bottomRuler
    ;
};