borgen v2.0.0

Borgen🏅 (The developers👨‍💻 logger)

The custom Logger for your Node-Express app.

A HTTP request logger middleware for nodeJs

Installation🏗️

This is a Node.js module available through the npm registry. Installation is done using the npm install command:

$ npm i borgen

If you use yarn:

$ yarn add borgen

If you use pnpm:

$ pnpm add borgen

🚀Usage

const { Logger, Borgen } = require('borgen');

import { Logger,Borgen } from 'borgen';

Basic use

This is the simplest way you can use Borgen, you can however customize \ the colors it uses in logging.

const express = require('express');
const { Logger, Borgen } = require('borgen');

const app = express();
app.use(Borgen({}))

Logger.info({message: 'This is an informational message.'});
Logger.warn({message:'This is a warning message.'});
Logger.error({message:'This is an error message.'})

app.listen('3002', () => {
    Logger.info({ message: 'The server is running on port 3002'});
});

Available Customizations: 🌞Colors

• black
• red
• green
• yellow
• blue
• magenta
• cyan
• white
• blackBright (alias: gray, grey)
• redBright
• greenBright
• yellowBright
• blueBright
• magentaBright
• cyanBright
• whiteBright

Logger💬

Basic usage

Logger.info({message: 'This is an informational message.'});
Logger.warn({message:'This is a warning message.'});
Logger.error({message:'This is an error message.'})

Customizing the Colors🧰

You can fully customize the color for your log.

Logger has three options:

• Logger.info( )
• Logger.warn( )
• Logger.error( )

Each Logger option has defaults and will fallback if no arguments are passed

const express = require('express');
const { Logger, Borgen } = require('borgen');

const app = express();

app.get('/test', (req, res) => {
    Logger.warn({ message: 'This is an warning', infoColor: 'yellow', messageColor: 'yellowBright' });
    res.send('Hello world').end();
});

app.get('*', (req, res) => {
    Logger.error({ message: 'This route does not exist', infoColor: 'red', messageColor: 'redBright' });
    res.send('404 not found');
});

app.listen('3001', () => {
   Logger.info({ message: 'The server is running on port 3001', infoColor: 'cyanBright', messageColor: 'whiteBright' });
});

Logger arguments💥

• message This is the information you want to be logged to the console.
• infoColor This is the color of the first section of the log.
• messageColor This is will be the color of the message you want to log.

Note: infoColor and messageColor are optional and if not passed the logger will\ will use the fallback configuration.

Use CTRL + space or Options + space with infoColor and messageColor to get all\ the colors available.

Borgen middleware

This middleware is able to handle all you incoming requests and you can \ customize the colors they are logged in.

Basic use

app.use(Borgen({}))

🧰Customizing the Colors

You can fully customize the color for your incoming requests.

const express = require('express');
const { Logger, Borgen } = require('borgen');

const app = express();
app.use(
    Borgen({
        methodColor: {
            GET: 'greenBright',
            POST: 'yellow',
            PUT: 'gray',
            PATCH: 'gray',
            DELETE: 'redBright'
        },
        routeColor: 'gray',
        statusColor: 'cyan',
        resTimeColor: 'gray',
        statusCodesCl: { serverErr: 'red', clientErr: 'yellow', redirects: 'cyan', success: 'greenBright' }
    })
);

app.listen('3001', () => {
   Logger.info({ message: 'The server is running on port 3001', infoColor: 'cyanBright', messageColor: 'whiteBright' });
});

Borgen arguments💥

• methodColor it is an Object which allows you to specify a specific color for different request types.
• routeColor it is the color of the route of the request e.g /api/v1/users.
• statusColor it is the color of the status text
• resTimeColor it is the color of how long it took the request to process and give a response.
• statusCodesCl it is where you specify the color of status codes in different ranges
  • serverErr for 5xx
  • clientErr for 4xx
  • redirects for 3xx
  • success for 2xx

Note: All this arguments are optional and if not passed the logger will\ will use the fallback configuration.

Save my logs🚀

Using this feature you can store you apps log in a file.\ This feature is useful for debugging and for production.

📑Borgen logs 🐾

logs argument allows you to specify a path where your log file will be located.

app.use(
    Borgen({
        logs: '../logs/borgen.log'
    })
);

📑Logger logs 🐾

To save your logs you need to add the logs parameter as an argument.

 Logger.info({ logs: '../logs/info.log' });
 Logger.warn({ logs: '../logs/warnings.log' });
 Logger.error({ logs: '../logs/error.log' });

\ Note: The 🔖log file name can be any custom name. ' ./custom_name.log '

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💪🏽 Thanks to all the awesome Contributors

Thanks a lot for spending your time helping Borgen grow. Thanks a lot! Keep rocking🍻

License📑

MIT