pino-prettier

A terminal pino json-stream beautifier, based on pino-pretty

usage

Given that your svr.js uses pino and emits json-stream to stdout, then:

node svr.js | pino-prettier

installation

global

npm i -g 'pino-prettier'

After which, your machine has learnt a new command, pino-prettier to which you may pipe the stdoutput of your pino logger program.

local to project

npm i 'pino-prettier'

After which you may use it in your package.json scripts.

e.g.:

  "scripts": {
     ...
    "run": "node svr.js",
    "run:pretty": "node svr.js | pino-prettier",
    ...
  },

what's the difference from pino-pretty ?

• meta objects are formatted using util.inspect which uses colors instead of the noisyjson.stringify
• timestamp is "humanized" as just HH:MM:ss.l
• the log channel is part of the formatted main line, and colorized with a unique color per channel.
• level field appears first, to make its color distinctive against the indent black, and less confusing with the colorized channels.
• fields are optimized for developer machine (filter out host, pid, version, etc)

Customization

This first version is customizable as far as CLI arguments supported by pino-pretty: it works by hacking the --config parameter, and injecting it's own config file, and does some hacky stuff on the way.

However, every customization that is supported by CLI arguments are stronger than the baked-in config file shipped with this package.

Have fun :)

history

• 3.0.0 - modernized dependencies, improve tests, compatibility with modern versions of pino (transport target)
• 2.0.3 - cli command changed from prettier to pino-prettier so it wont collide with the prettier lint tool.
• 1.0.1 - first stable, however works only as CLI
• 1.0.0 - was depricated for a bug, and unpublished after a cooldown period.