Proposal to try Dumper for Node.js applications

[thetutlage]

Hello!

I see you guys have rolled out a custom implementation for pretty printing values using pretty-format, which returns a CLI output and then converts it to HTML using regular expressions.

I have been in the same boat for a while with object-inspect and decided to create something from scratch that is more flexible with the output by separating the parsing and the printing logic into two different cycles.

I recently created @poppinss/dumper (inspired by Symfony's VarDumper), which comes with inbuilt HTML and CLI formatters. You can also use its low-level parser API to create tokens and then print them using a custom formatter. You can even write these formatters using a different language (other than JavaScript).

I decided to share it here to see if you would like to give the project a try :)

[patinthehat]

@thetutlage this looks like it would make a great addition! The code for pretty printing was repurposed from a jest internal package originally. I'll definitely look into this. Thanks! 👍

[thetutlage]

Sure, feel free to run the examples to see how the output looks like and let me know if you have any questions