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A Node.js module for sending events to Honeycomb, a service for debugging your software in production. For tracing support and automatic instrumentation of Express and other common libraries, check out our Beeline for NodeJS.
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Node 14.18+
See DEVELOPMENT.md
Features, bug fixes and other changes to libhoney are gladly accepted. Please open issues or a pull request with your change.
All contributions will be released under the Apache License 2.0.
Use npm version --no-git-tag-version
to update the version number using major
, minor
, patch
, or the prerelease variants premajor
, preminor
, or prepatch
. We use --no-git-tag-version
to avoid automatically tagging - tagging with the version automatically triggers a CI run that publishes, and we only want to do that upon merging the PR into main
.
After doing this, follow our usual instructions for the actual process of tagging and releasing the package.
[4.3.1] - 2024-12-20
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The npm package libhoney receives a total of 31,628 weekly downloads. As such, libhoney popularity was classified as popular.
We found that libhoney demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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