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use @northscaler/bunyaner (has breaking changes)

bunyaner

Deprecation Notice:

This module has been superceded by @northscaler/bunyaner and will no longer be maintained.

Breaking changes in @northscaler/bunyaner:

The following breaking changes need to be addressed when upgrading to @northscaler/bunyaner:

• The function exported by require(@northscaler/bunyaner) uses deconstruction instead of positional parameters.
• All object payloads, including Errors, are placed under the payload field; the field name is configurable via option payloadKey.
• When an Error is logged, there is a new isError field in the log record that contains the boolean Literal true (not a string); the field name is configurable via option errorIndicatorKey.
• It is also configurable whether you want to include isError: false when non-Errors are logged using option alwaysShowErrorIndicator.

Overview

Make bunyan's log level methods much mo' betta' with mo' bunyan-y flavor:

• always returns the first argument given
• if any key on arguments[0] conflicts with bunyan's core logging fields, wraps arguments[0] with { object: arguments[0] } in the logging level call

TL;DR

Install bunyan (if you haven't already) & bunyaner:

$ npm i --save bunyan
$ npm i --save bunyaner

Create a file that your module will use to get a logger:

// log.js
const bunyan = require('bunyan')
const bunyaner = require('bunyaner')
 
module.exports = bunyaner(bunyan.createLogger({
  name: 'foobar',
  serializers: bunyan.stdSerializers
  // ...other buyan options
}))

Now use it:

const log = require('./log')
 
let gameState = log.info({
  game: 'zork',
  player: 'querky123'
}) // logs state object & returns it
 
// ...querky123 plays game to level 5...
 
gameState = log.info({
  game: 'zork',
  player: 'querky123',
  level: 5 // <- conflicts with bunyan core logging field, but no matter!
}) // logs gameState as { object: gameState } & returns gameState
 
if (gameState.badness) {
  // log method logs given error, then returns it so it can be thrown
  throw log.error(new Error('boom'))
}