Today (the 24th really), I worked from home. And I created some stuff after work!
I did my daily YouTube post (some acoustic guitar metal lol)
And then I wrote a really odd JavaScript npm module:
@zachlysobey/cow-log
It's essentially a logger function, but instead of executing with parens (()),
its executed on backtick template strings.
cow.log`result: ${result}`It has the added benefit of pretty-printing any objects posted into the little
${...}s
Oh ya, did I forget to say? There's cows!
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( result: { )
( "data": "my result data" )
( } )
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o ^__^
o (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
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|| ||I got a kick out of writing this. Why?
- because tagged template string functions are weird.
- because cows are fun
- because I wrote some really weird/ugly code to go along with it.
For whatever reason, sometimes it feels good to write bad code.
Here's the full implementation:
from: https://github.com/zachlysobey/cow-log/blob/master/index.js
const cow = require('cowsay')
const objectToPrettyString = (o) => JSON.stringify(o, null, 2)
module.exports = {
log(strings, ...objects) {
console.log(
cow.think({
text: strings
.reduce(
(outputs, str, i) => {
const hasObject = i < objects.length
return (str === '')
? hasObject
? [...outputs, objectToPrettyString(objects[i])]
: outputs
: hasObject
? [...outputs, str, objectToPrettyString(objects[i])]
: [...outputs, str]
},
[]
)
.join('')
})
)
}
}