bdog
is a commandline utillity written in nodejs. Its functionality is
inspired by bcat by Ryan
Tomayko, which is a cat
utillity for the browser.
I always liked the ability to stream logfiles, json responses or whatever
output I came accross inside a terminal to my browser window. The only thing
I was always missing was a more sophisticated view inside the browser (eg.
Syntax highlighting, JSON data as an unfoldable tree structure, animation
highlights if new lines are recieved.). That's why I decided to hack together
bdog
. As with cat
and dog
, bdog
is supposed to be a better bcat
.
The basic implementation currently ready mimics most of bcats basic behaviour. Therefore it can be used as a drop in replacement in most situations currently. The application architecture allows for easy integration of advanced views and all the graphical stuff I would like in the future. Currently none of those are implemented. They will follow as soon as I got some more spare time.