v0.2.0

Changelog

• Add support for line event emitting already decoded data
• Fix emitting when file is truncated
• Destroy stream on end event when follow option is set to false
• unfollow method now executes only when follow option is set to true (as indicated in documentation)

Tests

• Add tests for line event
• Add tests for truncated file behavior

Documentation

• Small overall improvements
• Add new « good to know » section giving further details on some behaviors
• Add section on line event and update data event section

v0.1.0

Changelog

• Fix invalid usage of this.debug with more than one argument
• Mutualize options validation error handling
• Add support for customizable retry option, it can now be either a boolean or an object defining following properties:
  • timeout: abort retry after given milliseconds
  • max: abort retry after given retries count
  • interval: retry after given milliseconds (still defaults to sleepInterval value)

Tests

• Fix invalid original test of retry option (timeout value was not set)
• Add new tests for new retry options

Documentation

• Add code of conduct
• Make notes about options more visible
• Add sleepInterval usage example
• Add list of supported encodings
• Add documentation about new retry option usage

v0.0.5

Changelog

This release does not change the way to use better-tail. It just adds some improvements:

• validate options before running
• emits an error if validation failed
• adds new utility file containing, well, utilities
• moves files under lib folder

Tests

• add tests for invalid options
• add test for retry option

Documentation

• add section about debugging
• add section about tests
• add contributing guide

v0.0.4

Changelog

• isFD now checks for underlying fd.fd property to check if it’s a file descriptor
• fix undefined target defaulting to process.stdin (this is for another time but was planned for initial release)

Tests

• update test names to match options names they are testing
• add new test to check if bytes option superseeds lines option when both are set
• add new test for undefined target handling

v0.0.3

Changelog

• retry option now wait for sleepInterval milliseconds between retries

Documentation

• add Github Action badge
• update retry option description

v0.0.2

Support Node.js from version 8 (code and tests).

v0.0.1

First release of better-tail 🎉