log4jslogger

A simple wrapper for log4js logger that configures itself from a file in a fixed location.

In the interest of not repeating myself over and over with the same code to provide my Node modules with basic logging capabilities I have created this module and shared it for anyone who cares to make use of it.

Installing

log4jslogger is available via npm

npm install log4jslogger --save

Once you have it you need to create a config folder in the root of your application.

In this folder create a new log4js.json file

In this file put your log4js configuration something like this, which configures output to the console and a daily rolling date file appender.

{
    "appenders": [
        { 
            "type":  "console"
        },
        {
            "type": "dateFile",
            "filename": "/logs/module.log",
            "pattern": "-dd-MM-yyyy",
            "maxLogSize": 20480
        }
    ]
}

Look here for more options

Usage

Using log4jslogger is pretty simple

var logger = require('log4jslogger'); logger.trace('Message'); logger.debug('Message'); logger.info('Message'); logger.warn('Message'); logger.error('Message'); logger.fatal('Message');

That's it couldn't be simpler and less repetition