The signale npm package is a console logger with various levels of importance, from debugging to fatal errors. It provides an easy way to display colorful and styled log messages in the console. It is designed to be both beautiful and powerful, with custom and configurable loggers.
Customizable Loggers
Allows users to create custom loggers with specific configurations, badges, colors, and labels.
const { Signale } = require('signale');
const options = {
disabled: false,
interactive: false,
logLevel: 'info',
secrets: [],
stream: process.stdout,
types: {
remind: {
badge: '**',
color: 'yellow',
label: 'reminder',
logLevel: 'info'
},
santa: {
badge: '🎅',
color: 'red',
label: 'santa',
logLevel: 'info'
}
}
};
const custom = new Signale(options);
custom.remind('Remember to check your logs!');
custom.santa('Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas!');Predefined Loggers
Provides a set of predefined loggers for common logging levels such as success, error, warning, info, and debug.
const signale = require('signale');
signale.success('Operation successful');
signale.error('Something went wrong');
signale.warn('Warning message');
signale.info('Information message');
signale.debug('Debugging message');Interactive Mode
Enables interactive logging, which can be useful for tasks that have a duration, such as pending operations that eventually succeed or fail.
const { Signale } = require('signale');
const interactive = new Signale({ interactive: true, scope: 'custom' });
interactive.pending('Running task');
setTimeout(() => {
interactive.success('Task completed');
}, 1000);Scoped Loggers
Allows the creation of scoped loggers that prefix their output with a given scope, making it easier to distinguish logs from different parts of an application.
const { Signale } = require('signale');
const tasks = new Signale({ scope: 'tasks' });
tasks.info('Starting tasks...');
tasks.complete('All tasks completed!');Winston is a multi-transport async logging library for Node.js. It is designed to be a simple and universal logging library with support for multiple transports. Compared to signale, winston offers more flexibility in terms of transports (e.g., logging to files, databases, etc.) and is widely used in production environments.
Pino is a very low overhead Node.js logger, which focuses on performance. It provides a different set of trade-offs compared to signale, emphasizing speed and low resource usage over user-friendly output.
Debug is a tiny Node.js debugging utility modelled after Node core's debugging technique. It is less about pretty or stylized output and more about providing a simple way to enable or disable debug logs for different parts of an application using environment variables.
Log4js is a logging framework for Node.js, which supports multiple appenders, log levels, and categories. It is similar to the Java logging framework log4j. It is more complex and configurable than signale, suitable for larger applications that require detailed logging control.
Hackable and configurable to the core, signale can be used for logging purposes, status reporting, as well as for handling the output rendering process of other node modules and applications.
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package.jsonnpm install signale
Import signale and start using any of the default loggers.
awaitcompleteerrordebugfatalfavinfonotepausependingstarstartsuccesswaitwarnwatchlogconst signale = require('signale');
signale.success('Operation successful');
signale.debug('Hello', 'from', 'L59');
signale.pending('Write release notes for %s', '1.2.0');
signale.fatal(new Error('Unable to acquire lock'));
signale.watch('Recursively watching build directory...');
signale.complete({prefix: '[task]', message: 'Fix issue #59', suffix: '(@klauscfhq)'});
To create a custom logger define an options object yielding a types field with the logger data and pass it as argument to a new signale instance.
const {Signale} = require('signale');
const options = {
disabled: false,
interactive: false,
logLevel: 'info',
scope: 'custom',
secrets: [],
stream: process.stdout,
types: {
remind: {
badge: '**',
color: 'yellow',
label: 'reminder',
logLevel: 'info'
},
santa: {
badge: '🎅',
color: 'red',
label: 'santa',
logLevel: 'info'
}
}
};
const custom = new Signale(options);
custom.remind('Improve documentation.');
custom.santa('Hoho! You have an unused variable on L45.');
Here is an example where we override the default error and success loggers.
const {Signale} = require('signale');
const options = {
types: {
error: {
badge: '!!',
label: 'fatal error'
},
success: {
badge: '++',
label: 'huge success'
}
}
};
const signale = new Signale();
signale.error('Default Error Log');
signale.success('Default Success Log');
const custom = new Signale(options);
custom.error('Custom Error Log');
custom.success('Custom Success Log');
The options object can hold any of the following attributes: disabled, interactive, stream, scope and types.
disabledBooleanfalseDisables the logging functionality of all loggers belonging to the created instance.
interactiveBooleanfalseSwitches all loggers belonging to the created instance into the interactive mode.
logLevelString'info'Sets the general logging level of the created instance. Can be 'info' - logs all messages of all loggers, 'timer' - logs only messages of time, timeEnd, debug, warn, error & fatal loggers, 'debug' - logs only messages of debug, warn, error & fatal loggers, 'warn' - logs only messages of warn, error & fatal loggers & 'error' - logs only messages of error & fatal loggers.
secrets(String|Number)[][]An array holding secrets/sensitive-information to be removed from the body and metadata of to-be-logged messages and replaced with the default '[secure]' string.
streamstream.Writable|stream.Writable[]process.stdoutDestination to which the data is written, can be a single valid Writable stream or an array holding multiple valid Writable streams.
scopeString|String[]Name of the scope the logger is reporting from.
typesObjectHolds the configuration of the custom and default loggers.
Additionally, the configuration object of each custom/default logger type, defined in the types option, can hold any of the following attributes: badge, label, color and logLevel.
badgeStringThe icon corresponding to the logger.
labelStringThe label used to identify the type of the logger.
colorStringThe color of the label, can be any of the foreground colors supported by chalk.
logLevelString'info'The log level corresponding to the logger. Messages originating from the logger are displayed only if the log level is greater or equal to the above described general logging level logLevel of the Signale instance.
To create a scoped logger from scratch, define the scope field inside the options object and pass it as argument to a new signale instance.
const {Signale} = require('signale');
const options = {
scope: 'global scope'
};
const global = new Signale(options);
global.success('Successful Operation');
To create a scoped logger based on an already existing one, use the scope() function, which will return a new signale instance, inheriting all custom loggers, timers, streams, configuration, interactive mode & disabled statuses from the initial one.
const signale = require('signale');
const global = signale.scope('global scope');
global.success('Hello from the global scope');
function foo() {
const outer = global.scope('outer', 'scope');
outer.success('Hello from the outer scope');
setTimeout(() => {
const inner = outer.scope('inner', 'scope');
inner.success('Hello from the inner scope');
}, 500);
}
foo();
To initialize an interactive logger, create a new signale instance with the interactive attribute set to true. While into the interactive mode, previously logged messages originating from an interactive logger, will be overridden only by new ones originating from the same or a different interactive logger. Note that regular messages originating from regular loggers are not overridden by the interactive ones.
const {Signale} = require('signale');
const interactive = new Signale({interactive: true, scope: 'interactive'});
interactive.await('[%d/4] - Process A', 1);
setTimeout(() => {
interactive.success('[%d/4] - Process A', 2);
setTimeout(() => {
interactive.await('[%d/4] - Process B', 3);
setTimeout(() => {
interactive.error('[%d/4] - Process B', 4);
setTimeout(() => {}, 1000);
}, 1000);
}, 1000);
}, 1000);
By default, all signale instances log their messages to the process.stdout stream. This can be modified, to match your own preference, through the stream property, where you can define a single or multiple valid Writable streams, which will be used by all logger types to log your data. Additionally, it is possible to define one or more Writable streams exclusively for a specific logger type, thus write data independently from the rest logger types.
const {Signale} = require('signale');
const options = {
stream: process.stderr, // All loggers will now write to `process.stderr`
types: {
error: {
// Only `error` will write to both `process.stdout` & `process.stderr`
stream: [process.stdout, process.stderr]
}
}
};
const signale = new Signale(options);
signale.success('Message will appear on `process.stderr`');
signale.error('Message will appear on both `process.stdout` & `process.stderr`');
By utilizing the secrets option, secrets and other sensitive information can be filtered out from the body as well as the metadata, i.e. scope names etc, of to-be-logged messages. The option is part of the configuration object passed to a Signale instance on its initialization, and is of type Array<String|Number>. The array can hold multiple secrets, all of which are removed, if present, from the to-be-logged messages and are replaced with the default '[secure]' string. Additionally, when the unary signale.scope(name) function is used, the returned Signale instance inherits all the secrets belonging to its parent. The secrets checking process is performed in a case-sensitive manner. Also, the unary signale.addSecrets() and the nullary signale.clearSecrets() functions are available through the API for adding and clearing secrets respectively.
It is critical and highly recommended to not type directly secrets in your code, thus the following example serves only as a simple & easily reproducible usage demonstration.
const {Signale} = require('signale');
// In reality secrets could be securely fetched/decrypted through a dedicated API
const [USERNAME, TOKEN] = ['klaussinani', 'token'];
const logger1 = new Signale({
secrets: [USERNAME, TOKEN]
});
logger1.log('$ exporting USERNAME=%s', USERNAME);
logger1.log('$ exporting TOKEN=%s', TOKEN);
// `logger2` inherits all secrets from its parent `logger1`
const logger2 = logger1.scope('parent');
logger2.log('$ exporting USERNAME=%s', USERNAME);
logger2.log('$ exporting TOKEN=%s', TOKEN);
Timer are managed by the time() and timeEnd() functions. A unique label can be used to identify a timer on initialization, though if none is provided the timer will be assigned one automatically. In addition, calling the timeEnd() function without a specified label will have as effect the termination of the most recently initialized timer, that was created without providing a label.
const signale = require('signale');
signale.time('test');
signale.time();
signale.time();
setTimeout(() => {
signale.timeEnd();
signale.timeEnd();
signale.timeEnd('test');
}, 500);
To enable global configuration define the options under the signale namespace in your package.json.
The following illustrates all the available options with their respective default values.
{
"signale": {
"displayScope": true,
"displayBadge": true,
"displayDate": false,
"displayFilename": false,
"displayLabel": true,
"displayTimestamp": false,
"underlineLabel": true,
"underlineMessage": false,
"underlinePrefix": false,
"underlineSuffix": false,
"uppercaseLabel": false
}
}
displayScopeBooleantrueDisplay the scope name of the logger.
displayBadgeBooleantrueDisplay the badge of the logger.
displayDateBooleanfalseDisplay the current local date in YYYY-MM-DD format.
displayFilenameBooleanfalseDisplay the name of the file that the logger is reporting from.
displayLabelBooleantrueDisplay the label of the logger.
displayTimestampBooleanfalseDisplay the current local time in HH:MM:SS format.
underlineLabelBooleantrueUnderline the logger label.
underlineMessageBooleanfalseUnderline the logger message.
underlinePrefixBooleanfalseUnderline the logger prefix.
underlineSuffixBooleanfalseUnderline the logger suffix.
uppercaseLabelBooleanfalseDisplay the label of the logger in uppercase.
To enable local configuration call the config() function on your signale instance. Local configurations will always override any pre-existing configuration inherited from package.json.
In the following example, loggers in the foo.js file will run under their own configuration, overriding the package.json one.
// foo.js
const signale = require('signale');
// Overrides any existing `package.json` config
signale.config({
displayFilename: true,
displayTimestamp: true,
displayDate: false
});
signale.success('Hello from the Global scope');
Also, scoped loggers can have their own independent configuration, overriding the one inherited by the parent instance or package.json.
// foo.js
const signale = require('signale');
signale.config({
displayFilename: true,
displayTimestamp: true,
displayDate: false
});
signale.success('Hello from the Global scope');
function foo() {
// `fooLogger` inherits the config of `signale`
const fooLogger = signale.scope('foo scope');
// Overrides both `signale` and `package.json` configs
fooLogger.config({
displayFilename: true,
displayTimestamp: false,
displayDate: true
});
fooLogger.success('Hello from the Local scope');
}
foo();
<logger>(message[, message]|messageObj|errorObj)loggerFunctionCan be any default or custom logger.
messageStringCan be one or more comma delimited strings.
const signale = require('signale');
signale.success('Successful operation');
//=> ✔ success Successful operation
signale.success('Successful', 'operation');
//=> ✔ success Successful operation
signale.success('Successful %s', 'operation');
//=> ✔ success Successful operation
errorObjError ObjectCan be any error object.
const signale = require('signale');
signale.error(new Error('Unsuccessful operation'));
//=> ✖ error Error: Unsuccessful operation
// at Module._compile (module.js:660:30)
// at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:671:10)
// ...
messageObjObjectCan be an object holding the prefix, message and suffix attributes, with prefix and suffix always prepended and appended respectively to the logged message.
const signale = require('signale');
signale.complete({prefix: '[task]', message: 'Fix issue #59', suffix: '(@klaussinani)'});
//=> [task] ☒ complete Fix issue #59 (@klaussinani)
signale.complete({prefix: '[task]', message: ['Fix issue #%d', 59], suffix: '(@klaussinani)'});
//=> [task] ☒ complete Fix issue #59 (@klaussinani)
scope(name[, name])Defines the scope name of the logger.
nameStringCan be one or more comma delimited strings.
const signale = require('signale');
const foo = signale.scope('foo');
const fooBar = signale.scope('foo', 'bar');
foo.success('foo');
//=> [foo] › ✔ success foo
fooBar.success('foo bar');
//=> [foo] [bar] › ✔ success foo bar
unscope()Clears the scope name of the logger.
const signale = require('signale');
const foo = signale.scope('foo');
foo.success('foo');
//=> [foo] › ✔ success foo
foo.unscope();
foo.success('foo');
//=> ✔ success foo
config(settingsObj)Sets the configuration of an instance overriding any existing global or local configuration.
settingsObjObjectCan hold any of the documented options.
// foo.js
const signale = require('signale');
signale.config({
displayFilename: true,
displayTimestamp: true,
displayDate: true
});
signale.success('Successful operations');
//=> [2018-5-15] [11:12:38] [foo.js] › ✔ success Successful operations
time([, label])StringSets a timers and accepts an optional label. If none provided the timer will receive a unique label automatically.
Returns a string corresponding to the timer label.
labelStringLabel corresponding to the timer. Each timer must have its own unique label.
const signale = require('signale');
signale.time();
//=> ▶ timer_0 Initialized timer...
signale.time();
//=> ▶ timer_1 Initialized timer...
signale.time('label');
//=> ▶ label Initialized timer...
timeEnd([, label])ObjectDeactivates the timer to which the given label corresponds. If no label is provided the most recent timer, that was created without providing a label, will be deactivated.
Returns an object {label, span} holding the timer label and the total running time.
labelStringLabel corresponding to the timer, each timer has its own unique label.
const signale = require('signale');
signale.time();
//=> ▶ timer_0 Initialized timer...
signale.time();
//=> ▶ timer_1 Initialized timer...
signale.time('label');
//=> ▶ label Initialized timer...
signale.timeEnd();
//=> ◼ timer_1 Timer run for: 2ms
signale.timeEnd();
//=> ◼ timer_0 Timer run for: 2ms
signale.timeEnd('label');
//=> ◼ label Timer run for: 2ms
disable()Disables the logging functionality of all loggers belonging to a specific instance.
const signale = require('signale');
signale.success('foo');
//=> ✔ success foo
signale.disable();
signale.success('foo');
//=>
enable()Enables the logging functionality of all loggers belonging to a specific instance.
const signale = require('signale');
signale.disable();
signale.success('foo');
//=>
signale.enable();
signale.success('foo');
//=> ✔ success foo
isEnabled()Checks whether the logging functionality of a specific instance is enabled.
const signale = require('signale');
signale.success('foo');
//=> ✔ success foo
signale.isEnabled();
// => true
signale.disable();
signale.success('foo');
//=>
signale.isEnabled();
// => false
addSecrets(secrets)Adds new secrets/sensitive-information to the targeted Signale instance.
secrets(String|Number)[]Array holding the secrets/sensitive-information to be filtered out.
const signale = require('signale');
signale.log('$ exporting USERNAME=%s', 'klaussinani');
//=> $ exporting USERNAME=klaussinani
signale.addSecrets(['klaussinani']);
signale.log('$ exporting USERNAME=%s', 'klaussinani');
//=> $ exporting USERNAME=[secure]
clearSecrets()Removes all secrets/sensitive-information from the targeted Signale instance.
const signale = require('signale');
signale.addSecrets(['klaussinani']);
signale.log('$ exporting USERNAME=%s', 'klaussinani');
//=> $ exporting USERNAME=[secure]
signale.clearSecrets();
signale.log('$ exporting USERNAME=%s', 'klaussinani');
//=> $ exporting USERNAME=klaussinani
For more info on how to contribute to the project, please read the contributing guidelines.
cd signalenpm install or yarn installnpm test or yarn testView in detail all the packages and repositories that are using Signale here.
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