seanmonstar / dbug

debug moar

dbug

A drop-in replacement for debug, for slightly more utility.

var dbug = require('dbug')('foo:bar');

dbug('just like debug'); // except goes to stdout, not stderr
dbug(new Error('also like debug'));

// additional methods
dbug.info('info');
dbug.warn('warning');
dbug.error('red alert');

Just like debug, dbug won't do anything unless the DEBUG env variable matches the dbug logger, but with slightly more lenient matching.

DEBUG=*
DEBUG=foo,quux
DEBUG=foo // also acts as foo:*

A user script wanting to dynamically enable or disable can do it a couple ways:

require('dbug').env = 'foo,quux'; // just like ENV var
var foo = require('dbug')('foo');
foo.enabled = true;

dbug's Issues

Allow periods as name separator

var dbug = require('dbug')('foo.bar');

be able to set severity level in ENV

Something like DEBUG=foo.warn would only show warn and error messages.

TypeError: Object function dbug... has no method 'split'

index.js:245
if (decimalVersion(dbug) > decimalVersion(global.__dbug__)) {
should be
if (decimalVersion(dbug.version) > decimalVersion(global.__dbug__.version)) {