node-splain

creates human-readable type diagrams of deep objects, specifically to simplify reverse-engineering webservice APIs

API Reference

describe(object [, options])

Returns an object representing the internal format of the object. Valid options are detect_url and detect_int, which will allow heuristic detection of url strings as the 'url' type, and integral numbers as the 'integer' type.

explain(object [, options])

Returns a string representation of the object format provided by util.inspecting the output of describe(object).