Viewing the metalsmith pipeline JSON

Question

Metalsmith has an inbuilt way of displaying the pipeline contents, namely by using a simple function like:

    function(files, ms, done) {
        console.log('Files: ');
        console.log(files);
        console.log();
        console.log('Metalsmith ');
        console.log(ms);
        done();
    }

Or with metalsmith-logger

logger(['title', 'tags', 'contents')

However in both cases I get the output as [object Object] and I require the full output. (i.e what I might get with JSON.stringify)

Even more so though, I wonder if there's any way to get a nicely formatted output of the pipe and contents after each transform, like one gets using gatsbyjs and graphQL.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '17 at 14:46

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Would metalsmith-debug-ui help? Nicely formatted React tool…

answered Dec 14 '17 at 14:46

Jake Rayson

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It seems perfect but doesn't work yet with gulp-metalsmith – HaoZeke Dec 15 '17 at 00:48

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 07 '18 at 07:43

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You can print out the object contents by using JSON.stringify() to wrap the files and ms like this JSON.stringify(files,null,3) where 3 is the depth number of the object

answered Dec 07 '18 at 07:43

H.Houssein

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Viewing the metalsmith pipeline JSON

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