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24 alternatives to I just open-sourced a small utility to make console.log better
Lumberjack is a JavaScript utility that hijacks the browser console, makes it more beautiful and enhances it so logs can be split into more manageable chunks. - jbail/lumberjack
Lumberjack is a JavaScript utility that enhances the browser console by intercepting console.log calls to improve readability and organization. It makes logs more visually appealing and allows developers to break… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I just open-sourced a small utility to make console.log better launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. https://jam.dev It’s called Jam and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create). It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file useful bug tickets for engineers. Like, sometimes I thought I included a screenshot, but the important information the engineer needed was what was actually right outside the boundary of the screenshot I took. Or I'd write that something "didn't work" but the engineer…
2024 · its alternatives →
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toast.log 2.0▲253Get console errors right on your page (as toasts)
2020 · toastlog.com · its alternatives →
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Sandworm▲293Keep your JavaScript code secure and compliant with Sandworm
2023 · sandworm.dev · its alternatives →
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JavaScript console.log output and errors next to your code
2022 · console-ninja.com · its alternatives →
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VS Code extension for building web applications ("swings") using a interactive and editor-integrated coding environment - lostintangent/codeswing
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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RedwoodJS▲203Hey everyone, I'm the original co-creator of RedwoodJS. (The framework that myself and Tom Preston-Werner, Rob Cameron and David Price built during Covid.) I had tried to build a developer tool startup (Snaplet), and failed. I rejoined the efforts to add RSC to Redwood, but I realized that we needed a much simpler framework that was closely tied to a platform (We chose Cloudflare). We started building RedwoodSDK a year ago and this is the result. An insanely simple stack. I am incredibly proud of this work, please star our repo and let me know if there's anything that doesn't resonate with…
2022 · rwsdk.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm building a JavaScript debugger called Wirebrowser. It combines network inspection, request rewriting, heap snapshots, and live object search. The main experimental feature is BDHS (Breakpoint-Driven Heap Search): it hooks into the JavaScript debugger and automatically captures a heap snapshot at every pause and performs a targeted search for the value or structure of interest. This reveals the moment a value appears in memory and the user-land function responsible for creating it. Another interesting feature is the Live Object Search: it inspects runtime objects (not just…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:umbrella: Lightweight javascript library for DOM manipulation and events
2018 · umbrellajs.com · its alternatives →
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See how your users crashed your web application
2016 · kuoll.com · its alternatives →
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Find the origin of any character in the DOM
2019 · fromjs.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · heelhook.github.com · its alternatives →
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A chrome extension tracks front-end JavaScript that uses DOM / jQuery APIs to manipulate html dom elements (e.g., change style, attach event listener) at runtime. - pilagod/js-tracker
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This TypeScript package allows you to safely execute JavaScript code within a WebAssembly sandbox using the QuickJS engine. Perfect for isolating and running untrusted code securely, it leverages the lightweight and fast QuickJS engine compiled to WebAssembly, providing a robust environment for code execution. Features - *Security*: Run untrusted JavaScript code in a safe, isolated environment. - *File System*: Can mount a virtual file system - *Custom Node Modules*: Custom node modules are mountable - *Fetch Client*: Can provide a fetch client to make http(s) calls - *Test-Runner*: Includes…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · hole.dev · its alternatives →
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There are multiple programs for working with log files, both inside and outside of the terminal. These tools are feature rich and functional and offer lots of control to the user. However, a lot of the time I found myself just opening raw log files in `less`. I enjoy the simplicity of quickly skimming through the logs, but it was difficult when the wall of text was in one color. For this reason, I created a command line tool called `tailspin` (the name is a take on the `tail` command) that did one thing: highlighting of log files. It is configurable, but requires no setup. It defaults to…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · editor.sunflower.industries · its alternatives →
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tty-logger▲75A readable, structured and beautiful logging in the terminal
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple and fast zero-dependencies-library to transform text-selections into serializable markings.
2015 · bowlingx.github.io · its alternatives →
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