round-logger

A simple rotative logger for Node.js, based on the great packages winston and winston-daily-rotate-file.

Ready-to-Go. These packages are very powerful and rich of potentialities but their configuration takes some time. Therefore, I built a pre-configured rotative logger ready to be used! It offers a lot of possibilities to configure the logging behaviour, however the only required option is the absolute path of the logging files.

Automatic directories. By default, the log files are stored in different directories by year-month (named with the pattern "yyyy-mm"). A big problem for winston-daily-rotate-file is that it does not create automatically the directories when they do not exist. My solution provides the automatic creation of the directories which not exists.

Set the logger in your project

const LoggerFactory = require('round-logger');
 
const Logger = LoggerFactory.create({
    enabled:true,
    directory_logs_abs_path:__dirname+'/my-logs', //absolute path needed
});
 
// Set your own global Logger object...
global.Logger = Logger;
 
//...or replace the global console object
global.console = Logger

How it works

• 'my-logs' is the general directory of log files
• every month will be created a new directory named 'yyyy-mm'
• every log file is about one day and it will be named 'yyyy-mm-dd-type.log'
• when the log file exceeds the max_file_size another file is created

my-logs
├── 2017-11
│   ├── 2017-11-29-error.log
│   ├── 2017-11-29-log.log
│   ├── 2017-11-30-error.log
│   └── 2017-11-30-log.log
└── 2017-12
    ├── 2017-12-01-error.log
    ├── 2017-12-01-log.log
    ├── 2017-12-01-error.log.1
    ├── 2017-12-01-log.log.1
    ├── 2017-12-01-error.log.2
    ├── 2017-12-01-log.log.2
    ├── 2017-12-02-error.log
    └── 2017-12-02-log.log

Configuration

• directory_logs_abs_path: (default: '' / REQUIRED) Absolute path of logs directory. The directory where all logs files and directories are stored. Hint: use the global string __directory.
• enabled: (default: true) Enable logging
• console_log_level: (default: 'log') Minimum log level for console logging
• file_log_level: (default: 'log') Minimum log level for file logging
• console_logging: (default: true) Enable logging on console
• file_logging: (default: true) Enable logging on file
• directory_date_pattern: (default 'yyyy-MM') Pattern for directory names.
• file_date_pattern: (default: 'yyyy-MM-dd-') Pattern for file names.
• max_file_size: (default: 1000000) Max file size (Byte).
• max_files: (default: 10) Max number of log files per day.
• file_global_log: (default: 'log.log') Global log file name; the global log is a file with all log levels.
• file_error_log: (default: 'error.log') Error log file name; the error log is a file with error level only.

Bugs or requests

I am still working on this project. So, please, report me any kind of bug or requests about new features. You can do it on GitHub Issues or via email. I will try to solve each issues in a reasonable time.

Next changes

• Mocha tests
• Browser version