mute

Politely tells one or more streams to shut the heck up for a moment by temporarily reassigning their write methods. Useful when testing noisey modules which lack verbosity options. Mutes stdout and stderr by default.

Install

$ npm install --save mute

Usage

1var mute = require('mute');
2
3// Mute stdout and stderr
4var unmute = mute();
5
6console.log('foo');   // doesn't print 'foo'
7console.error('bar'); // doesn't print 'bar'
8
9unmute();
10
11console.log('foo');   // prints 'foo'
12console.error('bar'); // prints 'bar'
13
14// Mute just stderr
15var unmuteErr = mute(process.stderr);
16
17console.log('foo');   // prints 'foo'
18console.error('bar'); // doesn't print 'bar'
19
20unmuteErr();
21
22console.log('foo');   // prints 'foo'
23console.error('bar'); // prints 'bar'

API

mute(...stream): Function()

Accepts one or more streams or arrays of streams, mutes them all, and returns a function to unmute them.

Test

$ npm test

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