utilities.ts

/*
 * "utilities.js"
 * --------------
 * *realllly* want "index.js" small for some reason
 */

/* need to bring in things from other files */
import * as fs from 'fs';

/* nobody wants to see time formatting shit 500 times */
function getTimeString() {
  /* date in local timezone format */
  var datetime = new Date();

  /* zero-pad appropriate values */
  var year   = datetime.getUTCFullYear();
  var month  = ('00' + (datetime.getUTCMonth() + 1)).slice(-2); // starts at 0
  var date   = ('00' + datetime.getUTCDate()).slice(-2);
  var hour   = ('00' + datetime.getUTCHours()).slice(-2);
  var minute = ('00' + datetime.getUTCMinutes()).slice(-2);
  var second = ('00' + datetime.getUTCSeconds()).slice(-2);

  /* print the time to  */
  return year + '-' + month + '-' + date + ' ' + hour + ':' + minute + ':' + second;
}

/* nobody wants to see logging shit 500 times */
export function log(content:string, logFile:string) {
  var processedContent = undefined;

  if(content.includes('-----') || content.includes('=====')) {
    processedContent = content;
  }
  else {
    processedContent = getTimeString() + ' - ' + content;
  }

  console.log('\r' + processedContent); // carriage return makes quit by CTRL+C look better
  if(logFile.length != 0) {
    fs.appendFileSync(logFile, processedContent + '\n'); // end with newline for the next set of output
  }
}