[WIP] Remove noisy console logs for production readiness

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<issue_title>noisy console logs</issue_title>
<issue_description>Let's get ready for production by removing or systematically suppressing all console.log messages.

Let's also make sure that when the tests are clean they are not noisy -- we should have clean canonical testing when all's well.

Use the canonical/idiomatic ways to do this in the Typescript ecosystem.</issue_description>

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Fixes #49

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