better-buffer-inspect

better-buffer-inspect makes util.inspect(aBuffer) show the size of a node Buffer, as well as its text content if it is <= 512 bytes and decodes as UTF-8.

Install

In your project, run:

npm install better-buffer-inspect --save

or install from the GitHub repo:

npm install ludios/better-buffer-inspect --save

API

Requiring better-buffer-inspect will override Buffer.prototype.inspect.

> require('better-buffer-inspect');
 
> new Buffer(4).fill(255)
<Buffer size=4: ff ff ff ff>
 
> new Buffer("hello world\n")
<Buffer size=11: utf8 'hello world\n'>
 
> new Buffer("\ucccc")
<Buffer size=3: utf8 '쳌'>