Report Builder

A simple tool for helping your programs generate complex JSON documents. It provides a nice developer experience providing simple but powerful chainable methods.

Create complex JSON reports easily

Installation

Install via yarn

yarn add report-builder (--dev)

or npm

npm install report-builder (--save-dev)

If you don't use a package manager, you can access report-builder via unpkg (CDN), download the source, or point your package manager to the url.

report-builder is compiled as a collection of CommonJS modules & ES2015 modules for bundlers that support the jsnext:main or module field in package.json (Rollup, Webpack 2)

The report-builder package includes precompiled production and development UMD builds in the dist folder. They can be used directly without a bundler and are thus compatible with many popular JavaScript module loaders and environments. You can drop a UMD build as a <script> tag on your page. The UMD builds make report-builder available as a window.reportBuilder global variable.

Usage

setup

 
import reportBuilder from 'report-builder';
 

Examples

See example folder or the runkit example.

Basic usage example

You have to require the report constructor, then you instantiate a report, and then you can start using it:

const Report = require('report-builder');
const report = new Report('Super report','counting api calls');
 
report.section('results').section('APICalls').increment(10);
report.setTotal(100);
 

Each call to .section('name') will return a section object pointing to that area of the report. You can save this reference and use it later, for example:

const mySection = report.section('results').section('APICalls');
/* do some fancy stuff*/
mySection.increment('Failed',10);

After running all that example code, we can generate a JSON representation of our report using JSON.stringify. Let's output it to the console:

console.log(JSON.stringify(report, null, 2));
/** And here is our report on the console:
{
  "summary": {
    "total": {
      "count": 100,
      "label": "counting api calls"
    },
    "timestamp": 1482604936983,
    "notes": "Super report"
  },
  "results": {
    "APICalls": {
      "count": 10,
        "count": 10
      "Failed": {
      }
    }
  }
}
*/

Report structure

A report in it's simpler has a summary and a results sections. Check the format below:

{
    summary: {
        total: {
            count: 0,
            label: "What does the total mean, what we are counting"
        },
        timestamp: 1482604172152,
        notes: "Why we are generating a report"
    },
 
    results: { /* This section is empty when the report is first created*/
        APICalls: {
            count: 10
        }
     }
}

License

The code is available under the MIT license.

Contributing

We are open to contributions, see CONTRIBUTING.md for more info.

API

For a more complete description of the api please check the documentation

Misc

This module was created using generator-module-boilerplate.

Disclaimer

This is a work in progress, and may be a bit oppinionated. It was build to suit my needs, so it makes sense.