relogger v1.0.3

relogger

A Remote Login System for devices where local logging is not available or easy (YEP I am talking about windows phone and similars).

Install

$ npm install --save-dev relogger

Usage

Require the 'relogger' and tell him in what port to listen

var relogger = require('relogger');
relogger().listen(1234);

If your page uses https then you need to pass certificate to relogger. If you are running a unix/linux machine you can create the certificate with the following commands:

openssl genrsa -out key.pem
openssl req -new -key key.pem -out csr.pem
openssl x509 -req -days 9999 -in csr.pem -signkey key.pem -out cert.pem
rm csr.pem

Then, pass the certificates to relogger

var fs = require('fs');
var relogger = require('relogger');

relogger()
  .setCredentials(fs.readFileSync('key.pem'), fs.readFileSync('cert.pem'))
  .listen(1444);

Once you have the relogger server up and running you will see a message like the one below.

              .__                                             
_______   ____  |  |    ____     ____     ____    ____  _______ 
\_  __ \_/ __ \ |  |   /  _ \   / ___\   / ___\ _/ __ \ \_  __ \
 |  | \/\  ___/ |  |__(  <_> ) / /_/  > / /_/  >\  ___/  |  | \/
 |__|    \___  >|____/ \____/  \___  /  \___  /  \___  > |__|   
             \/               /_____/  /_____/       \/         

        Relogger Server up and running on port: 1444
        To enable remote logging please add the following script tag to your page: 
        <script type="text/javascript" src="https://10.63.85.113:1444/relogger/reloggerclient.js"></script>

Copy the mentioned script tag into you page and you are ready to go. Whenever you want to add a remote log you can do so with:

   console.re.log('test log');
   console.re.warn('test warn log', {data: 'some data'}, ['MORE DATA']);
   console.re.debug('test debug log');
   console.re.error('test error log');

The logs are sent through a FIFO queue which ensures that the all the logs happen in order.

Also once you have added relogger to your page, all uncaught errors will automatically be remotely logged.

##relogger-cli We now have a relogger-cli to ease the use of relogger <(^,^)>

If you want to know more please go to https://www.npmjs.com/package/relogger-cli

##Beware relogger has been thought for debugging in development environments. The server sets the header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' to '*' which is not very secure.

###Changes from 0.0.x to 1.0.0 I have removed the possibility of adding the relogger to your express app. In order to be able to support remote logs in secure servers (https) and complex logs I had to do more changes on the server configuration.

It is not a good idea to use a remote logging system that changes your server configuration behind the scenes. That is way I have decide to go for a stand alone version only.

I have also changed the syntax to make it more close to node's.