@alexrah/payload-tools v3.0.1

@alexrah/payload-tools

A collection of utility tools for Payload CMS v3 applications.

Installation

Install the package using your preferred package manager:

# Using pnpm (recommended)
pnpm add @alexrah/payload-tools

# Using npm
npm install @alexrah/payload-tools

# Using yarn
yarn add @alexrah/payload-tools

Available Tools

pinoPrettyLogger

A utility function that creates a pre-configured Pino logger with pretty printing for development environments.

Usage (with Payload CMS)

src/payload.config.ts

import { pinoPrettyLogger } from '@alexrah/payload-tools';

export default buildConfig({
  //[...],
  logger: pinoPrettyLogger('my-app'),
})

Usage (standalone)

import { pinoPrettyLogger } from '@alexrah/payload-tools';

// Create a logger instance
const logger = pinoPrettyLogger('my-app');

// Log messages
logger.info('Application started');
logger.warn('This is a warning');
logger.error('An error occurred', { error: new Error('Something went wrong') });

Configuration

The logger can be configured using the following environment variables:

• DISABLE_LOGGING: Set to 'true' to disable all logging
• PAYLOAD_LOG_LEVEL: Set the minimum log level (default: 'info')

Features

• Colorized output for better readability
• Timestamps in local time
• Clean, developer-friendly formatting
• Runtime log level configuration
• PM2 process manager compatible

Development

Prerequisites

• Node.js (version specified in .nvmrc)
• pnpm (recommended) or npm

Setup

1. Clone the repository
2. Install dependencies:

   pnpm install

Building

pnpm build

Linting

pnpm lint

To automatically fix linting issues:

pnpm lint:fix

License

ISC © Alessandro Stoppato

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Support

For support, please open an issue in the GitHub repository.