javascript - Node.js console.log - Is it possible to update a line rather than create a new line?

Question

My node.js application has a lot of console logs, which are important for me to see (it's quite a big app so runs for a long time and I need to know that things are still progressing) but I'm ending up with thousands of lines of console logs.

Is it somehow possible to do a console.update that erases/replaces a console line rather than creating a new line?

Answer 1

Try playing with process.stdout methods instead on console:

process.stdout.write("Hello, World");
process.stdout.clearLine();
process.stdout.cursorTo(0);
process.stdout.write("
"); // end the line