Node ansi logger and stringify

AnsiLogger is a lightweight, customizable color logger for Node.js.

Features

• Simple and intuitive API for data logging.
• Customizable colors and apperance.
• It is also possible to pass a top level logger (like Homebridge or Matter logger) and AnsiLogger will use it for output instead of console.
• Includes also a fully customizable stringify funtions with colors.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js installed on your machine.
• node-ansi-logger has no dependencies!

Installation

To get started with AnsiLogger in your package

npm install node-ansi-logger

Usage

Initializing AnsiLogger:

Create an instance of AnsiLogger.

import { AnsiLogger, AnsiLoggerParams, LogLevel } from 'node-ansi-logger';

const log = new AnsiLogger({logName: '<your name>'}); // Eventually other params in AnsiLoggerParams

To import the stringify functions

import { stringify, payloadStringify, colorStringify, mqttStringify, debugStringify } from 'node-ansi-logger';

Using the logger:

log.debug('Debug message...', ...parameters);
log.info('Info message...', ...parameters);
log.notice('Notice message...', ...parameters);
log.warn('Warning message', ...parameters);
log.error('Error message', ...parameters);
log.fatal('Fatal message', ...parameters);
log(LogLevel.WARN, 'Warning message', ...parameters)

Using the logger with colors inside the message:

log.debug(`Debug message ${YELLOW}with yellow part${db}`, ...);

Using the logger internal timer:

log.startTimer('Time sensitive code started')
log.stopTimer('Time sensitive code finished')

Using the stringify function:

stringify({...})
colorStringify({...})

Screenshot

Contributing

Contributions to AnsiLogger are welcome.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.