kenny-loggins

HIGHWAY TO THE LOGGING ZONE

RIGHT INTO THE LOGGING ZONE

what

this is my logging module. it uses a combination of winston and @jfhbrook/logref to do the heavy lifting, supplies a few handy functions and mostly stays out of the way.

api

var loggins = require('kenny-loggins');

loggins.createLogger(opts)

this function returns a winston logger configured for cli logging to stdout and configured to observe logs from the @jfhbrook/logref implementation of process.logging. it's also configured to log unhandled exceptions and unhandled rejections.

options:

• level - the level of the logger, defaults to 'info'
• logref.level - the level at which to log process.logging events, defaults to 'debug'
• meta - the winston defaultMeta argument, except I was able to make the name shorter

loggins.observe(logger, level)

this function takes a winston logger and a logging level and uses the process.logging.observe api as implemented in @jfhbrook/logref to collect logs from process.logging and send them to winston. all logs from all process.logging loggers are emitted at the same level.

loggins.levels

this is an object containing a winston levels object.

kenny-loggins configures winston to use these levels:

• debug - stuff you usually don't want to see
• info - stuff you might want to mute in production
• warn - warnings
• error - errors
• fatal - errors that crash the process

loggins.priorities

this is the reverse lookup for loggins.levels. while levels map from a string name to an integer priority, this maps from priority back to level.

loggins.colors

this is an object containing a logform colors spec for the cli log formatter. its colors are similar to what we see in the standard winston cli logger, but it also includes a color for the "fatal" log level.

loggins.formatter

this is the winston formatter used by this library. right now it's the standard winston cli formatter with colors configured.

var minimistLog = require('kenny-loggins/minimist');

this module contains helpers for integrating minimist options parsing with kenny-loggins.

minimistLog.verbosity(opts, defaultLevel)

this function will take a minimist style opts object and a default level. if minimist appears to set either the -v or --verbose flag it will return a level one lower, and if not it will return the default level.

if the --log-level flag is set in the opts object, that level will be used.

var syslog = require('kenny-loggins/syslog');

syslog.toSyslog(level)

this function will take a kenny-loggins level and return an appropriate syslog compatible priority number.

syslog.fromSyslog(priority)

this function will take a syslog priority number and return an appropriate kenny-loggins level.

development

this project uses tap for testing and prettier for formatting. I don't have linting yet because my linting config and my prettier config don't agree rn. Either way, you can run formatting with npm run format and tests with npm test.

license

kenny-loggins is licensed under the apache license, v2.0.