Merge together the exact same console events

[GaurangTandon]

Nature of issue?

• Existing feature enhancement

Feature enhancement details:

Consider the following code:

function draw() {
	print("hello");
}

Run it and you will get an output similar to this:

(12) hello
(5) hello
(6) hello
...

Basically, the number of times parameter keeps changing, and a new console event keeps getting logged, even though the console event is literally the same. Therefore, I feel this can be considered as a feature enhancement, to merge together exactly same console events if they are consecutive.

Proposed solution: check if the messageEvent in the handleConsoleEvent in PreviewFrame.jsx is the same as the last one in this.props.consoleEvents. If so, simply increment the times property of the last event. I will attempt to submit a related PR right now.

[AnkurIngale]

I feel the console has divided count on purpose. Correct me if I am wrong.

[GaurangTandon]

@AnkurIngale I am not sure why that should be on purpose. Even in the Chrome developer console, subsequent identical logs are joined together. (try running setInterval(() => console.log(1), 1000); with varying time intervals)

[siddhant1]

I feel it's done on purpose , not sure why though

[catarak]

it's not on purpose!

[catarak]

go ahead and work on this!

[brijsiyag]

Is this issue still exists?
I am new to open source and contributing first time so is this right issue for me to solve?

[shubhamkapoor01]

Hi i'm new to open source contributions, I've given this a shot and added code to check previous console event if it's exactly same as the current one then we don't rewrite it hope it's what you're looking for!