What's Changed

• fix: cleanup runtime caller usage by @ccoVeille in #36
• feat: CI tests against 1.23, stable and oldstable by @Andrei-hub11 in #35
• chore: remove enableColor and colorize local variables by @ccoVeille in #38
• feat: support up to Go 1.18 by @ccoVeille in #43

New Contributors

• @Andrei-hub11 made their first contribution in #35

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.6.0

What's Changed

• fix: missing opening brace with structs by @ccoVeille in #26
• fix: use div instead of body for HTML rendering by @ccoVeille in #27
• chore: remove useless callerLocation by @ccoVeille in #28
• chore: remove unused secret struct by @ccoVeille in #29
• chore: cleanup duplicated tests by @ccoVeille in #30
• feat: support customizing stack frames to skip when printing the header by @almas-x in #31

New Contributors

• @ccoVeille made their first contribution in #26

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.5.0

Changes

• feat: print the type of parameters and the type of return values #25 @LovesAsuna

✨ Features

• User Customization Support (#20)
  You can now customize the dump output to better fit your needs. Thanks @YohannBethoule, @ccoVeille, and @Akkadius

• JSON Output Helper (#18) You can now output dumps as JSON using the new DumpJSON function — great for structured logging or integrations. Thanks @tacheraSasi, @ccoVeille, and @Akkadius

🐛 Fixes

• No More Duplicate Fields (#22)
  Resolved an issue with duplicate fields in embedded structs. Also fixes #10. Thanks @almas-x!
• HTML Tag Correction (#19) Fixed a minor bug with HTML output. Thanks @radahn42

🧪 Tests

• New Test for Nil Pointer Edge Case
  Added a test case (TestIndirectionNilPointer) to cover a tricky edge case from #10.

📘 Docs & README

• Added an awesome-go badge 🏅 ([commit](1c50abf))
• Refined examples: simplified the main README and split out the builder examples for clarity.

🙌 Special Thanks

Huge shout-out to @ccoVeille for all the review support and contributions!

Changes

• feat: add Fdump(w io.Writer, vs ...any)

Changes

• Added codecov badge to readme
• 100% test coverage
• fix: prevent panic when dumping structs with promoted fields Addressed #6
• fix: better custom types handling Addressed #2

• Support for unexported fmt.Stringer values via forceExported() and asStringer() logic
• Automatic pointer wrapping in writeDump() to ensure fields are addressable when passed by value
• Cleaner handling of zero and nil values, with <invalid> safely rendered for uninitialized fields
• Redundant time.Time special-case removed, now universally handled by generalized Stringer logic
• No more panic fallbacks - all access is guarded, safe, and cleanly formatted
• Invoke .String() if exists - On custom types
• Test Coverage - Hitting around 94%

🎉 First stable release of godump — a developer-friendly pretty-printer for Go structs and values.

Inspired by Symfony’s VarDumper (Laravel's dump/dd), godump brings expressive debug output to Go projects, with no dependencies and intuitive formatting.

✨ Features

• 🧠 Field visibility markers: + (exported), - (unexported via reflection)
• 📍 Prints the file and line number where the dump was invoked
• 🔄 Cycle-safe reference detection (↩︎ &1)
• 🧪 Supports structs, maps, slices, arrays, pointers, time.Time, and functions
• 🎨 Colorized terminal output (ANSI-safe)
• 🌐 DumpHTML() for HTML-rendered debug output in web UIs
• 🪄 Control character escaping for strings (\n, \t, etc.)
• 📦 Lightweight: zero dependencies, ~350 LOC core

📦 Install

go get github.com/goforj/godump@v1.0.0

Thanks to everyone who helped test and refine the output. Feedback and PRs welcome 🙌