nogger

nogger - the node.js logger

Simple node.js logger to log to logfile. With the streaming interface it is possible to watch the livelogs.

Getting Started

Install the module with: npm install nogger

var nogger = require('nogger');
var log = nogger.getLogger();

or short

var log = require('nogger').getLogger();

Documentation

Logger usage

You can use predefined logging functions or defined your own level of logging

log.debug("hey ho debug!");
log.info("hey ho info!");
log.warn("hey ho warning!");
log.error("hey ho error!");

log.c("connection","hey ho connection!"); // custom level

configuration

To configure the Logger you can call setConfig

nogger.setConfig({
  path: './logs/', // path where log files are saved
  logOnly: [ // log only these types to the logfiles
    'error',
    'warn',
    'connection'
  ],
  rotate: "daily", // interval to change the logfile
  streamEnabled: true, // enable the awesome frontend for live logging view
  maxLogLength: 250, // maximum logging message length before it is truncated
  password: "a", // password for the log stream frontend
  port: 7076, // port for the log stream frontend
  styles: { // you can define how the log in the frontend looks like by passing css styles - define your custom log levels here!
    "debug": {
      color: "#c2d5ff",
      "font-size": "0.9em"
    },
    "info": {
      color: "#ffffff",
      "font-size": "0.8em"
    },
    "warn": {
      color: "#ff5f00",
      "font-size": "1em"
    },
    "error": { 
      color: "#ea1c00",
      "font-size": "1.1em"
    }
  },
  overwriteConsole: true // if you want you can turn off overwriting the default console.log
}

Examples

To see the demo download the module with npm install nogger and run node lib/demo then go to localhost:7076 and use the default password "change-this" to log in.

Todo

Streams for writing and reading log messages and files. Help is welcome!

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Paul Em. Licensed under the MIT license.