How to use console.log() in the new NodeJS external language Cell functionality in version 12.0?

After some checking, my belief is that there is no easy way to have console.log do something like Echo or Print. The main problem here is that console.log is built to have a side effect - writing to the equivalent of 'stdout' - and that stream isn't a thing you can access from the notebook interface. console.log doesn't return anything, and so, you don't see output.

Edit: According to M.R.'s answer, this now works in 12.1.

Console log seems to work (emits cells of type Print) in version 12.1: