contextual-logger

node-contextual-logger

Small and fast NodeJS logger with datetimestamp and prefixed context just because.

Install

npm install contextual-logger

Usage

Hold onto your socks now.

var logger = require('contextual-logger')().log;
var prefixedLogger = require('contextual-logger')('[PREFIX]').log;

var a = 'Hey girl.', b = { smooth: 'water' }

logger('Hello world.', a , b);
    //-> [2014-07-05T17:59:24Z] Hello world. Hey girl. { smooth: 'water' }
    
prefixedLogger('Hello world.', a , b);
    //-> [2014-07-05T17:59:24Z] [PREFIX] Hello world. Hey girl. { smooth: 'water' }

References:

NodeJS implementation of console.log

• https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/lib/console.js#L52-L54

For padded datetime stamp

• http://stackoverflow.com/a/12550320/245196

Credits

• Hafiz Ismail

Links

• Gisted at [https://gist.github.com/sogko/fcb7c1620850a362968c]
• wehavefaces.net
• twitter.com/sogko
• github.com/sogko
• medium.com/@sogko

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Hafiz Ismail. This software is licensed under the MIT License.