is it possible to make an on(consolelog event? it would do something every time text is logged to console

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This feature would do something every time text is logged to the node.js console. Here’s a somewhat of example of how I think it should look like:

on('console', msg => {console.log("text was logged! " + msg)})

Regular node.js

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Console methods don’t emit events, but the console object and its methods can be overwritten, so you could redefine it yourself: console.log = (...args) => { process.stdout.write('logged: ' + args.join(' ')) }, or wrap it in a Proxy.

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Console methods don&#8217;t emit events, but the console object and its methods can be overwritten, so you could redefine it yourself: console.log = (...args) => { process.stdout.write('logged: ' + args.join(' ')) }, or wrap it in a Proxy.

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