pretty-logger
v0.1.2
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A colorized extenstion of 'basic-logger' supporting error, warning, debug and info messages with timestamp.
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Pretty-Logger
Pretty Logger for nodejs allows for color coded error, warning, info, debug and trace console messages with (or without) timestamp. This is a modified version of the basic-logger project to use colors.
Installation
npm install pretty-logger --save
Accepted Colors
black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white, gray, grey, bgBlack, bgRed, bgGreen, bgYellow, bgBlue, bgMagenta, bgCyan, bgWhite, dim, rainbow, zebra, america, random, reset
Usage
var Logger = require('pretty-logger');
// configure level one time, it will be set to every instance of the logger
Logger.setLevel('warning'); // only warnings and errors will be shown
Logger.setLevel('warning', true); // only warnings and errors will be shown and no message about the level change will be printed
var customConfig = {
showMillis: true,
showTimestamp: true,
info: "gray",
error: ["bgRed", "bold"],
debug: "rainbow"
};
var log = new Logger(customConfig) // custom config parameters will be used, defaults will be used for the other parameters
//var log = new Logger(); // you can also do this to accept the defaults
log.error("An error occurred"); // will be red
log.warn("I've got a bad feeling about this!"); // will be yellow
log.info("Something just happened, thought you should know!"); // will be green
log.debug("The value of x is: " + x); // will be blue
log.trace("Heres some more stuff to help out."); // will be gray
Config options
For the error
, info
, warn
, debug
, and trace
properties you can find the accepted colors on the colors repo.
showTimestamp
- Show the timestamp with every message.showMillis
- Show milliseconds in the timestamp.printObjFunc
- The function to apply objects to, if logged. Default is util.inspect.prefix
- String that is prepended to every message logged with this instance.error
- String or array that represents the color of the error text. Default is "red".info
- String or array that represents the color of the info text. Default is "green".warn
- String or array that represents the color of the warning text. Default is "yellow".debug
- String or array that represents the color of the debug text. Default is "cyan".trace
- String or array that represents the color of the trace text. Default is "grey".
Future versions
- log to file
v0.1.2
- Add ability to have multiple color/styles -Credit to wvbe
- Fix issue #3 reported by jackwilsdon