Console.delight

[CSSer]

The only thing I beg of you is please don’t ship this in client-side libraries. Most of you will know better, but some of the things I see in third-party libraries really blow my mind. The last one was Pudgy the Panda as console ASCII art for some donation embed (their mascot). Sure, it’s cute, but that’s also multiple kilobytes of JS you’re forcing on your clients for whimsy in an already crowded environment. Apologies if I sound old and cranky.

[oefrha]

That's a lot better than some frontend library adding an "Easter egg" so that every website using it, including some very serious ones, had Santa beards on their buttons on Christmas a few years back (can't find the story now). Of course you may argue it was users' fault who should have vetted every single line of their dependency, but let's be real.

Unfortunately there are a lot of unprofessional people in open source, and while I hate to stereotype, they are especially prevalent in the JavaScript community where it's typical to have hundreds to thousands of unknown dependencies in every project. What can be done? I don't know. (Before I'm labeled as entitled -- I spend a lot of time on open source, without the unprofessional behavior.)

[klabb3]

You’re not old and cranky. Just (minimally base line) responsible.

Many frontend projects have 100s of deps, and while that’s a separate problem, imagine if a large fraction of them spammed bandwidth and console output with this.

[coldtea]

>Apologies if I sound old and cranky.

Worse, you sound new and square. In the olden times such "easter eggs" or cool logos were welcome, and in the DOS days (but also in the Unix console) often included ASCII art.

[fragmede]

> Pudgy the Panda as console ASCII art for some donation embed (their mascot).

Which library is this? Couldn't find it via a quick Google.

[SuperNinKenDo]

Would prefer that to all the tracking and telemtry shoved at us through JavaScript. What kind of world is it where whimsy is infuriating, and this mass surveilance framework is just how things are.

[CJefferson]

Would I put this in software I'm charging people for? Not at all.

If it's free and open source? Well if you don't like it you are welcome to apply for a refund.

[tomjakubowski]

I set up snippets in my code editor so I can quickly insert colorful, bold, and otherwise richly formatted console log messages for printf-debugging. The addition of color makes the messages I've just added stand out against other the logs. It's a great time and attention saver.

[vsnf]

Don't be shy, share the snippets

[tholman]

We've come a long way from console.frog [2016]

- https://tholman.com/console-dot-frog/

[calebpeterson]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240224004046/https://frontendm...

[cchance]

Thats actually pretty cool (from archive link)...

Probably not that common knowledge, or we'd have libraries designed for outputting nice log/admin interface data to the console XD

[loa_in_]

The only thing I can see is http 504

[bhaney]

Well, the site's not backendmasters

[paulddraper]

Same

[sroussey]

Wait until he finds out about custom formatters

[coldtea]

Don't be shy, tell more. Others haven't found about them either...

[throwup238]

Who's going to be the first to port DOOM to the dev console?

Edit: There it is - https://github.com/MattCozendey/doom-console-log

[bazil376]

In the console? Surely you can’t do tha—-oh.

[AgentOrange1234]

Truly we live in an age of marvels.