V8 stacktrace API callsites with knobs.

npm install --save v8-callsites

var stack = require('v8-callsites');

origin();

function origin(){
  foo();
}

function foo(){
  bar();
}

function bar(){
  baz();
}

function baz(){

  var barStackFrombaz = stack(3, bar);
  // bar `stack` from baz with only 3 frames

  barstackFrombaz.forEach(function(frame){
    console.log(
      frame.getFunctionName(), '->', frame+''
    );
  });
}

require('v8-callsites')([frames, origin])

• frames if specified should be an integer bigger than 0 or Infinity.
• origin if specified should be a function.
• if no arguments, the default number of frames is 2 so the origin is the module itself. The returned stack is sliced by one.

See also the avaliable methods of the stack trace api like:

• getLineNumber
• getFileName
• getEvalOrigin
• etc.

You would like to set how many frames are recorded (Error.stackTraceLimit) and from which function the stack should be traced back (Error.captureStackTrace).

By default two frames are recorded, though you can even lower it to one providing a function from which start.

It serves for the same use cases implemented on this cool modules

• visionmedia callsite
• sindresorhus callsites

I've been using those a lot.

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