Console

Debugging made easy

In this lesson, we shall look at a few different functionalities that this module provides.

The console module that Node.js provides is similar to the JavaScript console that most browsers provide. In case you had not noticed, we were not importing the console module before using console.log. The reason we were not importing anything is that there is a global console instance that is configured to write to process.stdout and process.stderr. Let’s look at some of the options that the global console provides.