caller-callsite

Get the callsite of the caller function

Usage no npm install needed!

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  import callerCallsite from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/caller-callsite';
</script>

README

caller-callsite

Get the callsite of the caller function

Install

npm install caller-callsite

Usage

// foo.js
import callerCallsite from 'caller-callsite';

export default function foo() {
    console.log(callerCallsite().getFileName());
    //=> '/Users/sindresorhus/dev/unicorn/bar.js'
}
// bar.js
import foo from './foo.js';
foo();

API

callerCallsite(options?)

Returns a callsite object.

options

Type: object

depth

Type: number
Default: 0

The callsite depth, meaning how many levels we follow back on the stack trace.

For example:

// foo.js
import callerCallsite from 'caller-callsite';

export default function foo() {
    console.log(callerCallsite().getFileName());
    //=> '/Users/sindresorhus/dev/unicorn/foobar.js'
    console.log(callerCallsite({depth: 1}).getFileName());
    //=> '/Users/sindresorhus/dev/unicorn/bar.js'
    console.log(callerCallsite({depth: 2}).getFileName());
    //=> '/Users/sindresorhus/dev/unicorn/foo.js'
}
// bar.js
import foo from './foo.js';

export default function foo() {
    foo();
}
// foobar.js
import bar from './bar.js';
bar();

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