core.inspect

Displays a human-readable representation of built-in and custom objects

Example

var show = require('core.inspect');

show([1, { foo: true }, "qux" ]);
// => '[1, {"foo": true}, "qux"]'

show([1, [2, [3, [4, [5, [6, [7]]]]]]]);
// => '[1, [2, [3, [4, [5, (...)]]]]]'

show({ foo: { toString: function(){ return "Yay" }}});
// => '{"foo": Yay}'

Installing

The easiest way is to grab it from NPM. If you're running in a Browser environment, you can use [Browserify][]

$ npm install core.inspect

Using with CommonJS

If you're not using NPM, [Download the latest release][release], and require the core.inspect.umd.js file:

var Inspect = require('core.inspect')

Using with AMD

[Download the latest release][release], and require the core.inspect.umd.js file:

require(['core.inspect'], function(Inspect) {
  ( ... )
})

Using without modules

[Download the latest release][release], and load the core.inspect.umd.js file. The properties are exposed in the global Folktale.Core.Inspect object:

<script src="/path/to/core.inspect.umd.js"></script>

Compiling from source

If you want to compile this library from the source, you'll need [Git][], [Make][], [Node.js][], and run the following commands:

$ git clone git://github.com/Folktale/core.inspect.git
$ cd core.inspect
$ npm install
$ make bundle

This will generate the dist/core.inspect.umd.js file, which you can load in any JavaScript environment.

Documentation

You can [read the documentation online][docs] or build it yourself:

$ git clone git://github.com/Folktale/core.inspect.git
$ cd core.inspect
$ npm install
$ make documentation

Then open the file docs/index.html in your browser.

Platform support

This library assumes an ES5 environment, but can be easily supported in ES3 platforms by the use of shims. Just include [es5-shim][] :)

Licence

Copyright (c) 2014 Quildreen Motta.

Released under the MIT licence.