I don't remember publishing an npm package either.

builds a simple logging library as his first npm package

This is how saneconsole came to be.

Using it is simple.

First, you'll have to install the package.

npm install saneconsole

Then, here's how to use it in one of your files

var saneconsole = require('saneconsole');
var meta = { }
// Set meta to any Object or String you'd like to be logged everytime.
// It could be the user's id or the entire user object
var console = saneconsole(meta);

NOTE: Logging to the file does not work on the client as the fs module isn't avaible there.

In order to use it on the web client, you will have to pass another boolean param when initializing the package.

var console = saneconsole(meta);

will become

var console = saneconsole(meta, true);

And add the below object to your webpack config

node: {
  fs: "empty"
}

You can also declare it in the global scope, using global on Node and window.console on the client.

It also adds a time stamp, and a prefix to the log.

console.log("Hi! I'm Nishant")

would be printed as

DEBUG: [ 2017-07-28T19:20:39.733Z ] :  Hi! I'm Nishant

As of now saneconsole only supports console.log, console.warn, and console.error

No logs are printed on production. You can finally say goodbye to that no-console rule in your eslint config.

All logs are found in the saneconsole.log file in the root of your project. They are just a series of JSON objects. You could easily convert them into an array of JSON objects and make them searchable.

Here is the object that gets added to the file:

{"timestamp":"2017-07-28T19:50:53.223Z","info":["Hi! I'm Nishant"],"meta":"123"}

A dashboard to view and search these logs coming up after the next boring class I attend.