What is @types/bunyan?
@types/bunyan provides TypeScript type definitions for the Bunyan logging library, which is a simple and fast JSON logging library for Node.js services.
What are @types/bunyan's main functionalities?
Basic Logging
This feature allows you to create a basic logger and log messages at the 'info' level.
const bunyan = require('bunyan');
const log = bunyan.createLogger({name: 'myapp'});
log.info('Hello, world!');
Logging with Different Levels
This feature allows you to log messages at different levels such as trace, debug, info, warn, error, and fatal.
const bunyan = require('bunyan');
const log = bunyan.createLogger({name: 'myapp'});
log.trace('Trace message');
log.debug('Debug message');
log.info('Info message');
log.warn('Warn message');
log.error('Error message');
log.fatal('Fatal message');
Child Loggers
This feature allows you to create child loggers that inherit properties from the parent logger but can also have additional context-specific properties.
const bunyan = require('bunyan');
const log = bunyan.createLogger({name: 'myapp'});
const child = log.child({widget_type: 'foo'});
child.info('Hello from child logger');
Serializers
This feature allows you to use serializers to format log messages, such as including request and response objects in a structured way.
const bunyan = require('bunyan');
const log = bunyan.createLogger({name: 'myapp', serializers: bunyan.stdSerializers});
log.info({req: {method: 'GET', url: '/'}}, 'Request received');
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