daemon-manager
v0.0.1
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Utility module that adds funcitonality to native node daemons.
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Daemon Wrapper
This utility module was built specifically to standardize behavior across node-windows, node-mac, and node-linux.
Features
There are two main components, the Controller and the Logger. The Controller monitors and manages the node script. The logger wraps general logging, making it easier to output to the native system and error logs.
Controller Features
Logger Features
Custom Functions
The manager.Logger
singleton class allows developers to replace console
methods with their own functions for:
- log()
- info()
- dir()
- warn()
- error()
- time()
- timeEnd()
- assert()
If these methods aren't overridden, the default methods from console
will be used.
Strip Console Colors
The logger also has a configuration attribute called stripColors
, which will strip any console color information from the logs.
This is useful when a script should output color-coded information to the screen during development, but not in production.
Pre/Postfix Messages
The logger can optionally prefix and postfix messages with static text. For example, if the info
log should have the word INFO:
before each message, it can be configured like:
var logger = new manager.Logger({
preInfo: 'INFO: ',
postInfo: ' << End Info`
});
logger.info('my message'); // <--- Outputs Info: my message << End Info
Each method has a pre and post configuration option.
Variable Replacement
The logger has a unique configuration option called findReplace
. This can be used to find and replace text in a log message. For example, the following
configuration will put the date in front of every log:
var logger = new manager.Logger({
preLog: '[DATE]: ',
findReplace: {
'[DATE]': function(msg){
return (new Date()).toLocaleString();
}
}
});
logger.log('my message'); // <-- Outputs Mon Nov 25 2013 20:35:01 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time): my message
The date in the aforementioned example would of course be the current date.