VS Code & Node.js: Use console() instead of console.log()?

In VS Code / Node.js, is there a way to use console() instead of console.log()?

I can't think of a way to do that that wouldn't potentially blow up code in other modules that you may be using, since it would require reassigning the console global, and that's...global. (I have included one possible option below, but...I don't like it.)

But even if you can find a way to do that, I wouldn't. Instead, at the top of the script, I'd have something like:

const log = typeof console === "function" ? console : console.log;

...and then use log (or whatever name you want to use) throughout the script. It'll refer to the appropriate function.

Here's something that might not blow up other code:

console = Object.assign(console.log, console);

That replaces console with console.log, but also puts all of the console properties (well, the own enumerable ones anyway) on the function as properties, so both console and console.log (and console.error, etc.) work. But there's no guarantee that code in an unsuspecting module doesn't do if (typeof console === "object") to decide whether it can use console, and that would fail because typeof would return "function" for it instead.

So again: I'd use the first solution above: A standalone log function.