ausgabe

ausgabe

Tiny logger with zero defaults.

Contents

• Description
• Install
• Usage
• API
• Instance API
• Miscellaneous

Description

ausgabe is designed to output user relevant log messages to the console or to a custom stream. It's lightweight, customizable and perfect for tools that need simple, yet beautiful log messages.

Install

npm install ausgabe

Usage

Basic

import { createLogger } from 'ausgabe'

const instance = createLogger({
  info: {
    color: 'blue',
    badge: 'ℹ',
    label: 'info',
  },
})

instance.info('Hello world')

Advanced

import figures from 'figures'
import { createLogger } from 'ausgabe'

const instance = createLogger(
  {
    info: {
      color: 'blue',
      badge: figures.info,
      label: 'info',
    },
    warn: {
      color: 'yellow',
      badge: figures.warning,
      label: 'warn',
      stack: false,
    },
    error: {
      color: 'red',
      badge: figures.cross,
      label: 'error',
    },
  },
  {
    indention: 7,
  },
)

// Simple massages
instance.info('Hello world')
instance.info('%s %s', 'Hello', 'world')

// Error messages
instance.warn(new Error('Logs error without the stack'))

// Complex error messages
instance.error(new Error('Logs error with the stack'))
instance.error(new Error('Logs error with the stack and cause error', { cause: new Error('Cause error') }))
instance.error(
  new AggregateError(
    [new Error('First error'), new Error('Second error')],
    'Logs aggregate error with multiple errors',
  ),
)

Nested

ausgabe supports nested logger instances.

import { createLogger } from 'ausgabe'

const instance = createLogger({
  requests: createLogger({
    get: {
      color: 'magenta',
      badge: '↗',
      label: 'get',
    },
    post: {
      color: 'magenta',
      badge: '↗',
      label: 'post',
    },
  }),
})

instance.requests.get('http://example.com')
instance.requests.post('http://example.com')

Streams

ausgabe streams to process.stdout by default, but also allows custom writable streams.

import { Writable } from 'node:stream'
import { createLogger } from 'ausgabe'

const stream = new Writable({
  write: (chunk, encoding, callback) => {
    console.log(chunk.toString())
    callback()
  },
})

const instance = createLogger({
  info: {
    color: 'blue',
    badge: 'ℹ',
    label: 'info',
    streams: [stream],
  },
})

instance.info('Hello world')

Log all rejections and exceptions

ausgabe only logs what you tell it to log. To catch all unhandled rejections and uncaught exceptions, you can use process.on. This isn't specific to ausgabe, but a general Node.js feature.

import figures from 'figures'
import { createLogger } from 'ausgabe'

const instance = createLogger({
  error: {
    color: 'red',
    badge: figures.cross,
    label: 'error',
  },
})

process.on('unhandledRejection', (error) => {
  instance.error(error)
})

process.on('uncaughtException', (error) => {
  instance.error(error)
})

API

Usage

import { createLogger } from 'ausgabe'

const instance = createLogger({
  info: {
    color: 'blue',
    badge: 'ℹ',
    label: 'info',
  },
})

import { createLogger } from 'ausgabe'

const instance = createLogger(
  {
    info: {
      color: 'blue',
      badge: 'ℹ',
      label: 'info',
    },
  },
  {
    indention: 6,
  },
)

Parameters

• types {object} Methods of the logger.
  • color {?string} Color of the log. Must be supported by chalk. Defaults to blue.
  • badge {?string} Icon to log along with the message. Using figures is recommended. Defaults to ℹ.
  • label {?string} Label to log along with the message. Defaults to info.
  • stack {?boolean} Determines if the stack of an error should be logged. Defaults to true.
  • streams {?WritableStream[]} Writable streams to which the data is written. Defaults to [process.stdout].
• options {?object} Options.
  • indention {?number} Aligns log messages with a custom indention. Defaults to 0.

Returns

• {object} ausgabe instance.

Instance API

Usage

instance.info('Hello world')
instance.info('%s %s', 'Hello', 'world')

Parameters

• message {any} Data to log that may contain zero or more substitution strings.
• substitutions {...any} Data with which to replace substitution strings within message.

Miscellaneous

Donate

I am working hard on continuously developing and maintaining my projects. Please consider making a donation to keep the project going strong and me motivated.

• Become a GitHub sponsor
• Donate via PayPal
• Buy me a coffee

Related

• signale - Highly configurable logging utility

Links

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Changelog

[2.1.1] - 2025-09-18

Changed

• Usage examples and links in README.md