caller-source-location

Node module that gives exact location of its invocation inside caller's source code file

API

Exported CallerSourceLocation function takes one parameter as a input:

• depth - tells how many callers from call stack should be skipped (0 by default)

Function returns an object containing following properties:

• file - source code file path, relative to the main directory
• line - source code line
• column - source code column

Examples

Simple example

Input file example.js

const CallerSourceLocation = require('caller-source-location');
 
const tasks = [
  () => CallerSourceLocation(),
  () => new Promise(resolve => resolve(CallerSourceLocation())),
  async () => CallerSourceLocation()
];
 
Promise
  .all(tasks.map(task => task()))
  .then(locations => console.log(locations));

Output

[ { file: 'example.js', line: 4, column: 9 },
  { file: 'example.js', line: 5, column: 42 },
  { file: 'example.js', line: 6, column: 15 } ]

Nesting

To track foo function invocation location, pass 2 as CallerSourceLocation is nested twice inside foo

const CallerSourceLocation = require('caller-source-location');
 
const foo = function () {
  const bar = function () {
    const depth = 2;
    const location = CallerSourceLocation(depth);
    console.log(location);
  };
 
  bar();
};
 
foo();
foo();

Output

{ file: 'example.js', line: 13, column: 1 }
{ file: 'example.js', line: 14, column: 1 }

Relative paths

File paths are relative to the main file directory, therefore having /foo/example.js file and running

• / $ node foo/example.js
• /foo $ node example.js
• /foo/bar $ node ../example.js

will have the same result file paths.

Compatibility

Bases on stack-trace library thus requires V8 powered environment (Node.js, Chromium).

License

MIT