dumb-parrot-logger

HTTP service that prints requests to STDOUT

Installation

This is a Node.js module available through the npm registry.

$ npm install dumb-parrot-logger

Examples

Start server (assuming ./node_modules/.bin is on your $PATH):

// defaults to port 2040
dumb-parrot

Send a request:

curl -X POST \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"user":"joe","action":"add task"}' \
     http://localhost:2040/

See request logged (In the terminal window where you started the server)

dumb-parrot debug { user: 'joe', action: 'add task' }

Specify log level with the request path ('/:logLevel'):

curl -X POST \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"message":"something unexpected happened"}' \
     http://localhost:2040/error

dumb-parrot error { message: 'something unexpected happened' }

Send a request with javascript (using 'isomorphic-fetch'):

// CORS is enabled and accepts requests from any origin

import fetch from 'isomorphic-fetch';

let body = {user: 'Joe', action: 'add task'};

fetch("http://localhost:2040", {
  method: 'POST',
  body: JSON.stringify(body),
  mode: 'cors',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
    Accept: 'application/json',
  }
});

dumb-parrot debug { user: 'joe', action: 'add task' }

Why?

This package was created to enable logging by client-side javascript executed in a headless web browser during integration tests (Rails system tests).