Extending console.log without affecting log line

Yes, it is possible to add information without messing up the originating line numbers of the log invocation. Some of the other answers here came close, but the trick is to have your custom logging method return the modified logger. Below is a simple example that was only moderately tested that uses the context variant.

log = function() {
    var context = "My Descriptive Logger Prefix:";
    return Function.prototype.bind.call(console.log, console, context);
}();

This can be used with:

log("A log message..."); 

Here is a jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/qprro98v/

One could get easily get creative and pass the context variable in, and remove the auto-executing parens from the function definition. i.e. log(“DEBUG:”)(“A debug message”), log(“INFO:”)(“Here is some info”), etc.

The only really import part about the function (in regards to line numbers) is that it returns the logger.

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