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Beautiful Logger for Node.js: the best alternative to the console.log statement

๐Ÿฆ’ Beautiful Logger for Node.js

The best alternative to the console.log statement

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Beautiful Logger for Node.js

๐Ÿš€ Installation

  1. In your node project run: npm install @ptkdev/logger --save
  2. Usage:
const Logger = require("@ptkdev/logger");
const logger = new Logger();
logger.info("message");

You can set options to new Logger(options); example:

const Logger = require("@ptkdev/logger");

const options = {
	language: "en",
	colors: true,
	debug: true,
	info: true,
	warning: true,
	error: true,
	sponsor: true,
	write: true,
	type: "log",
	rotate: {
		size: "10M",
		encoding: "utf8",
	},
	path: {
		// remember: add string *.log to .gitignore
		debug_log: "./debug.log",
		error_log: "./errors.log",
	},
};

const logger = new Logger(options);
logger.info("message");

See folder examples, run with node example.js. Below is available a description of options values.

๐Ÿงฐ Options

ParameterDescriptionValuesDefault valueAvailable since
languageSet language of log typeen / it / pl / es / pt / de / ru / frenv1.0.0
colorsEnable colors in terminaltrue / enabled / false / disabledtruev1.0.0
debugEnable all logs with method debugtrue / enabled / false / disabledtruev1.0.0
infoEnable all logs with method infotrue / enabled / false / disabledtruev1.0.0
warningEnable all logs with method warningtrue / enabled / false / disabledtruev1.0.0
errorEnable all logs with method errorstrue / enabled / false / disabledtruev1.0.0
sponsorEnable all logs with method sponsortrue / enabled / false / disabledtruev1.0.0
writeWrite the logs into a file, you need set path valuestrue / enabled / false / disabledfalsev1.0.0
typeFormat of logs in fileslog / jsonlogv1.0.0
rotateRotates the log files when size exceeds this value10B / 10K / 10M / 10G"rotate": {"size": "10M"}v1.5.0
paletteChange palette with hexcode colorsObjectdefault palettev1.5.0
pathIf write is true, the library writes the logs to a pathObject{"debug_log": "./debug.log", "error_log": "./errors.log"}v1.0.0

๐Ÿ”Œ Methods

MethodDescriptionParameters
debug(message, tag)message: Display debug log message <br> tag: prefix of messagemessage: string (mandatory) <br> tag: string (optional)
info(message, tag)message: Display info log message <br> tag: prefix of messagemessage: string (mandatory) <br> tag: string (optional)
warning(message, tag)message: Display warning log message <br> tag: prefix of messagemessage: string (mandatory) <br> tag: string (optional)
error(message, tag)message: Display errors log message <br> tag: prefix of messagemessage: string (mandatory) <br> tag: string (optional)
sponsor(message, tag)message: Display sponsor log message <br> tag: prefix of messagemessage: string (mandatory) <br> tag: string (optional)
stackoverflow(message, tag, error_string)message: Display stackoverflow log message <br> tag: prefix of message <br> error_string: query for stackoverflow, if empty we use message parammessage: string (mandatory) <br> tag: string (optional) <br> error_string: string (optional)
docs(message, url, tag)message: Display docs log message <br> url: link of documentation <br> tag: prefix of messagemessage: string (mandatory) <br> url: string (optional) <br> tag: string (optional)

๐ŸŽจ Palette

Beautiful Logger for Node.js

You can customize palette colors with Object palette and with hexcode values.

{
	...
	"palette": {
		"info": { // method name
			"label": "#ffffff", // label on left
			"text": "#4CAF50",  // log message
			"background": "#4CAF50" // background
		},
		"warning": {
			"label": "#ffffff",
			"text": "#FF9800",
			"background": "#FF9800"
		},
		"error": {
			"label": "#ffffff",
			"text": "#FF5252",
			"background": "#FF5252"
		},
		"stackoverflow": {
			"label": "#ffffff",
			"text": "#9C27B0",
			"background": "#9C27B0"
		},
		"docs": {
			"label": "#ffffff",
			"text": "#FF4081",
			"background": "#FF4081"
		},
		"debug": {
			"label": "#ffffff",
			"text": "#1976D2",
			"background": "#1976D2"
		},
		"sponsor": {
			"label": "#ffffff",
			"text": "#607D8B",
			"background": "#607D8B"
		},
		"time": {
			"label": "#ffffff",
			"background": "#795548"
		}
	}
	...
}

See folder examples, run with node example.js.

๐Ÿคนโ€โ™‚๏ธ LogRotate

Rotates the file when size exceeds 10 megabytes (optional, default 10M - values: 10B (byte) / 10K (kilobyte)/ 10M (megabyte)/ 10G (gigabyte))

...
"rotate": {
	"size": "10M",
	"encoding": "utf8"
},
...

๐Ÿ“š Documentation

Run npm run docs

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๐Ÿฆ„ Backers

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๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Contributing

I โค๏ธ contributions! I will happily accept your pull request! Translations, grammatical corrections (GrammarNazi you are welcome! Yes my English is bad, sorry), etc... Do not be afraid, if the code is not perfect we will work together ๐Ÿ‘ฏ and remember to insert your name in .all-contributorsrc and package.json file.

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

<!-- ALL-CONTRIBUTORS-LIST:START --> <!-- prettier-ignore-start --> <!-- markdownlint-disable --> <table> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://ptk.dev"><img src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/442844?v=4?s=100" width="100px;" alt=""/><br /><sub><b>Patryk Rzucidล‚o</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/ptkdev/ptkdev-logger/commits?author=ptkdev" title="Code">๐Ÿ’ป</a> <a href="#translation-ptkdev" title="Translation">๐ŸŒ</a> <a href="https://github.com/ptkdev/ptkdev-logger/commits?author=ptkdev" title="Documentation">๐Ÿ“–</a> <a href="https://github.com/ptkdev/ptkdev-logger/issues?q=author%3Aptkdev" title="Bug reports">๐Ÿ›</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/agoalofalife"><img src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/15719824?v=4?s=100" width="100px;" alt=""/><br /><sub><b>Ilua Chubarov</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/ptkdev/ptkdev-logger/commits?author=agoalofalife" title="Code">๐Ÿ’ป</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/Bruck1701"><img src="https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/17711277?v=4?s=100" width="100px;" alt=""/><br /><sub><b>Bruno Kรผmmel</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/ptkdev/ptkdev-logger/commits?author=Bruck1701" title="Code">๐Ÿ’ป</a> <a href="#translation-Bruck1701" title="Translation">๐ŸŒ</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/alinaosv"><img src="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/60554247?v=4?s=100" width="100px;" alt=""/><br /><sub><b>Alina Osv</b></sub></a><br /><a href="#translation-alinaosv" title="Translation">๐ŸŒ</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/Syltech"><img src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/3882925?v=4?s=100" width="100px;" alt=""/><br /><sub><b>Sylvain Tรฉchenรฉ</b></sub></a><br /><a href="#translation-Syltech" title="Translation">๐ŸŒ</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/giovannicardamone"><img src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/5117748?v=4?s=100" width="100px;" alt=""/><br /><sub><b>Giovanni Cardamone</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/ptkdev/ptkdev-logger/commits?author=GiovanniCardamone" title="Code">๐Ÿ’ป</a></td> </tr> </table> <!-- markdownlint-restore --> <!-- prettier-ignore-end --> <!-- ALL-CONTRIBUTORS-LIST:END -->

๐Ÿ’ฐ In the future, if the donations allow it, I would like to share some of the success with those who helped me the most. For me open source is share of code, share development knowledges and share donations!

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๐Ÿ’ซ License

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