@ptkdev/logger

🦒 Beautiful Logger for Node.js

The best alternative to the console.log statement

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This project is free, open source and I try to provide excellent free support. Why donate? I work on this project several hours in my spare time and try to keep it up to date and working. THANK YOU!

📎 Menu

• 💡 Features
• 👔 Screenshot
• 🚀 How to use
• 📚 Documentation
• ❤️ Contributing
• 🐛 Known Bugs
• 🍻 Community:
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💡 Features

• [✔️] Easy to use
• [✔️] MIT License
• [✔️] The best alternative to the console.log statement
• [✔️] Write stdout logs to file (supported format: text/log and json)
• [✔️] The JSON logs format is compatible with pinojs
• [✔️] Translations: 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇵🇱 (Help me ❤️)

👔 Screenshot

🚀 Installation

1. In your node project run: npm install @ptkdev/logger --save
2. Usage:

const Logger = require("@ptkdev/logger");
const logger = new Logger();
logger.info("message");

You can set options to new Logger(options); example:

const Logger = require("@ptkdev/logger");

const options = {
	"language": "en",
	"colors": true,
	"debug": true,
	"info": true,
	"warning": true,
	"error": true,
	"sponsor": true,
	"write": true,
	"type": "log",
	"path": {
		"debug_log": "./debug.log",
		"error_log": "./errors.log",
	}
};

const logger = new Logger(options);
logger.info("message");

See folder examples, run with node example.js. Below is available a description of options values and all logger methods.

Options

Parameter	Description	Values	Default value
language	Set language of log type	en|it|pl	en
colors	Enable colors in terminal	true|enabled|false|disabled	true
debug	Enable all logs with method debug	true|enabled|false|disabled	true
info	Enable all logs with method info	true|enabled|false|disabled	true
warning	Enable all logs with method warning	true|enabled|false|disabled	true
error	Enable all logs with method errors	true|enabled|false|disabled	true
sponsor	Enable all logs with method sponsor	true|enabled|false|disabled	true
write	Write the logs into a file, you need set path values	true|enabled|false|disabled	false
type	Format of logs in files	log|json	log
path	If write is true, the library writes the logs to a path	Object	{"debug_log": "./debug.log", "error_log": "./errors.log"}

Methods

Method	Description	Parameters
debug(message, tag)	message: Display debug log message tag: prefix of message	message: string (mandatory) tag: string (optional)
info(message, tag)	message: Display info log message tag: prefix of message	message: string (mandatory) tag: string (optional)
warning(message, tag)	message: Display warning log message tag: prefix of message	message: string (mandatory) tag: string (optional)
error(message, tag)	message: Display errors log message tag: prefix of message	message: string (mandatory) tag: string (optional)
sponsor(message, tag)	message: Display sponsor log message tag: prefix of message	message: string (mandatory) tag: string (optional)
stackoverflow(message, tag, error_string)	message: Display stackoverflow log message tag: prefix of message error_string: query for stackoverflow, if empty we use message param	message: string (mandatory) tag: string (optional) error_string: string (optional)
docs(message, url, tag)	message: Display docs log message url: link of documentation tag: prefix of message	message: string (mandatory) url: string (optional) tag: string (optional)

📚 Documentation

Run npm run docs

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🦄 Backers

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❤️ Contributing

I 💟 contributions! I will happily accept your pull request! Translations, grammatical corrections (GrammarNazi you are welcome! Yes my English is bad, sorry), etc... Do not be afraid, if the code is not perfect we will work together 👯 and remember to insert your name in .all-contributorsrc and package.json file.

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Patryk Rzucidło 💻 🌍 📖 🐛

Ilua Chubarov 💻

💰 In the future, if the donations allow it, I would like to share some of the success with those who helped me the most. For me open source is share of code, share development knowledges and share donations!

📲 Tools

🐍 Sorry for snake_case

I love snake_case syntax sorry for this 😭 don't hate me.

💫 License

• Code and Contributions have MIT License
• Images and logos have CC BY-NC 4.0 License (Freepik Premium License)
• Documentations and Translations have CC BY 4.0 License

Copyleft (c) 2020 Patryk Rzucidło (@PTKDev) <[e-mail]>

Changelog

v1.1.0 (March 08, 2020)

• Fix: misprint of errors in options and docs, renamed to error
• Fix: errors logs output moved to stderr
• Feature: new formats of logs files, available log (text) or (json)
• Compatibility: the JSON logs format is compatible with pinojs output