@freik/simplelogger v1.1.3

simplelogger

A VERY simplistic console.log replacement to enable filtering

Usage:

const logger = require('simplelogger');
const log = logger.bind('name');
// logger.disable('name')

log("Here's my message");
log(`Or maybe ${this} instead...`);
log(this);

logger.disable('name');
log("This won't get disabled, now");

if (logger.isEnabled('name')) {
  doSomethingSlowAndBig();
}
logger('otherName', this);
logger('otherName', "will also work");
logger('name', "and this won't get displayed now");
log('But just use it this way');
log('then you can turn it on and off easily');

API:

The default export is a log function that takes an initial 'labelling' parameter, which is only used to to control whether the log message is displayed. Thus, you can just use the thing like this:

const logger = require('simplelogger');
logger(1234, "<- that thing won't ever get logged");

But that's not really the point.

The point is to use logger.bind to enable you to switch all your console.log(...) commands over to just log(...) commands and then be able to turn them on and off trivially.

simplelogger.bind(name) returns a function that works just like console.log, but can be enabled or disabled using the rest of the API.

simplelogger.disable(name) will disable logging for any logger bound to that name.

simplelogger.enable(name) will enable logging for any logger bound to that name.

simplelogger.defaultToOff() makes the logger only show logs for names which have been explicitly enabled using the enable API.

simplelogger.defaultToOn() makes the logger show any logs for names unless they have been explicitly disabled using the disable API. This is the default mode of operation.

simplelogger.isDisabled(name) returns true if name has logging disabled.

simplelogger.isEnabled(name) returns true if name has logging enabled.