A simple logging utility for Node.js

• Introduction
• Features
• Options

Introduction

timber-logs is a simple logging utility for Node.js applications, timber-logs is useful for debugging, colored logs, and whatever else you can think of.

It provides multiple log types, colors, and optional icons to match the log type provided.

Options

timber-logs offers multiple options to customize your logs.

color (string)

To customize the color of your logs you can use the following code

timber.log("Hello, World!", {
  color: "red",
});

There are nine colors

• default (no color)
• black
• red
• green
• yellow
• blue
• purple
• cyan
• white

filled (boolean)

If filled is set to true then your color is set on the background and not the foreground.

timber.log("Hello, World!", {
  color: "yellow",
  filled: true,
});

type (string)

You can provide a type to customize the type of log, it overrides the color field and add an optional icon next to the text content of your log.

An example of using this type field is

timber.log("JavaScript has it's own Wikipedia page?", {
  type: "info",
});

There are five types

• default (no type)
• success
• info
• warn
• fatal (error)

You can add a icon using the icon field.

icon (boolean)

The icon field is a true or false condition that adds an icon next to your log when set to true, the icon only appears when a type is set.

| Type | Icon | | ----------- | ---- | | `default` | | | `success` | ✓ | | `info` | 🛈 | | `warn` | ⚠ | | `fatal` | ✗ |

timber.log("You don't have that permission.", {
  type: "fatal",
  icon: true,
});