Isomorphic Bunyan Stream
Just what it says on the label: a simple, isomorphic Bunyan stream for use in Node and the browser. It's intended to be used only for development, so all context gets stripped out: only the message, level, logger name, and a simple timestamp are displayed.
Why is this useful?
Isomorphic applications, as much or moreso than client-only, single-page web applications, are a distributed computing problem. Good logs provide a simple, sane way to reason about the flow of information through such a distributed system, but we need a way to reason about all actors involved, including the browser. As such, we're well-served by a consistent stream shared between both types of actor: the client (browsers) and the server (Node).
Installation
As always, it's just an NPM module:
npm install --save iso-bunyan-stream
Usage
The stream requires being added in raw mode:
var bunyan = require('bunyan');
var logger = bunyan.createLogger({
name: 'SomeApp',
streams: [{
level: 'info',
type: 'raw',
stream: {
write: function (record) {
console.log('%s %s| %s: %s', colors.grey(record.name), colors.grey(record.time.toLocaleTimeString()), colors[LEVEL_COLORS[record.level]](LEVEL_NAMES[record.level]), record.msg);
}
}
}]
});