@adamelliotfields/log v1.0.0

Log

:ledger: A Node logging library that writes to stdout and stderr with colored timestamps and log levels.

I really like Ghost's GhostLogger, but I don't want to import the entire library just for fancy console logging.

This is primarily a development tool. If you need serialize logs in JSON and transport to Elasticsearch LogStash, you'll need something like Winston, Bunyan, or Pino.

The library consists of a single Log class that inherits from Node's Console class and overrides the following methods:

• log
• info
• warn
• debug
• error
• trace
• assert

Additionally, there is the log.eol() method for writing the system end-of-line character to stdout.

All methods return this, so they can be chained.

The class is instantiated before being exported, so you don't have to. The constructor doesn't take any options anyways.

Installation

npm add @adamelliotfields/log

Usage

const log = require('@adamelliotfields/log');

log.log('logging!');
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325] logging!

log.info('information!');
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]   INFO information!

log.warn('warning!');
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]   WARN warning!

log.error('failure!');
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]  ERROR failure!

log.debug('debugging!');
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]  DEBUG debugging!

log.assert(true, 'should be true');
log.assert(false, 'should be true');
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325] ASSERT true should be true
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325] ASSERT false should be true

log.trace(new Error('message'));
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]  TRACE Error: message
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]        @ Object.<anonymous> (/home/afields/github/log/index.js:127:11)
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]        @ Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]        @ Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]        @ Module.load (module.js:565:32)
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]        @ tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]        @ Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]        @ Function.Module.runMain (module.js:693:10)
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]        @ startup (bootstrap_node.js:188:16)
// [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]        @ bootstrap_node.js:609:3

You can also use the included middleware in Connect/Express applications.

const express = require('express');
const http = require('http');
const { log, logMiddleware } = require('@adamelliotfields/log');

const app = express();

app.use(logMiddleware);

app.get('/', (req, res) => res.sendStatus(200));
app.get('/warn', (req, res) => res.sendStatus(400));
app.get('/error', (req, res) => res.sendStatus(500));

const server = http.createServer(app);

server.listen({ port: 8080, host: '127.0.0.1' }, () => {
  log.info('Server starting up 🎉').info('Listening on http://127.0.0.1:8080');
});

process.on('SIGINT', () => {
  server.close(() => {
    log.eol().warn('Server shutting down');
    process.exit(0);
  });
});

# [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]   INFO Server starting up 🎉
# [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]   INFO Listening on http://127.0.0.1:8080

curl localhost:8080
# OK
# [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]   INFO GET / 200 2.995ms

curl localhost:8080/warn
# Bad Request
# [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]   WARN GET /warn 400 1.567ms

curl localhost:8080/error
# Internal Server Error
# [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]  ERROR GET /error 500 0.887ms

^C
# [2018-04-15 19:37:37.325]   WARN Server shutting down

Alternatives

Aside from the aforementioned GhostLogger, squeak combined with time-stamp yields very nice results.

For stack trace formatting, check out pretty-error which uses renderkid.