Colors in my server-side `console.log()` while Meteor is in development mode

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I’d like to make use of this nifty npm colors package when printing to the server side console while running my meteor server.

I’m generating quite a bit of fixture data that I’d like to be able to color code to make it easier to read in the console.

I’ve tried both:

import colors from 'colors/safe'
console.log(colors.red("Generating Fake Data:"))

and

import colors from 'colors'
console.log("Generating Fake Data:".red)

but my console output remains to be:

I20160812-19:55:00.427(-4)? Generating Fake Data:

That first part “I20160812-19:55:00.427(-4)?” is blue, while “Generating Fake Data:” is just gray.

Screenshot:
console.log() screenshot

So, does anyone know another way I can display colors in my server-side console.log()s in Meteor?

I asked this question on StackOverflow a long long time ago and thought to ask it here maybe.

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Hi,

I stumbled across your question as I was doing my google-foo. I don’t know if you solved this or not, but here is the solution…

import colors from 'colors';
colors.enabled = true; // This is important
console.log(colors.green('I am green'));

Voilà –

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Good luck!

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Slightly related, but is it possible to customize the timestamp of the logs? The look really weird to me. I can use --raw-logs but then the original colors are gone.