log-instance

A minimalistic, extensible logging class that works on the browser or in NodeJS and lets you use the same Javascript code for front- or back-end.

Installation

npm install --save log-instance

Usage

See test/log-instance.js

logInstance()

Complex systems require global and local control over logging. Overall one might care only about warn() and error() messages, but one might, wish to log more detail for a particular object.

To deal with this usecase, logInstance() lets you decorate any object and turn it into a logger with its own logLevel.

var aObj = {name:"A"};
logger.logLevel = 'warn'; // ignore 'info' messages
logger.logInstance(aObj); // decorate aObj with logger methods/props
aObj.logLevel = 'info'; // locally enable 'info' messages
logger.info("Shared logger ignores this message");
aObj.info("A says hello");
console.log(logger.lastLog()); // A says hello

logLevel

There are four logging levels: debug, info, warn and error. The logging level can be set on individual object instances or in the shared LogInstance.singleton.

var logger = LogInstance.singleton;
logger.debug("nobody hears me"); // ignored by default 'info' logLevel
logger.info("hello"); // production message (normal)
logger.warn("oops"); // production message (unusual condition)
logger.error("E_DEATH", "I died"); // production message (fatal condition) throw E_DEATH

log()

A class can decorate instances with a log() method that logs at 'info' level (i.e., "I") and automatically includes the class name.

const { LogInstance } = require('log-instance');

class Koala {
    constructor(opts={}) {
        var logger = opts.logger || LogInstance.singleton;
        logger.logInstance(this);
        this.log('hello world!'); // 20200929 11:24:51 I Koala: hello world!
    }
}

lastLog(level)

Returns most recently logged text for given level.

logger.error("goodbye world");
logger.lastLog("error"); // ... ERROR goodbye world

Example

logLevel (global/instance)

var myUtil = new MyUtility();
myUtil.log("hello world"); // 20200829 17:58:42 I MyUtility: hello world

logger.logLevel = "warn"; // suppress 'info' messages
myUtil.log("nobody hears me!"); // ignored
logger.info("nobody hears us!"); // ignored

myUtil.logLevel = "info"; // override logLevel for instance
myUtil.log("I hear me!"); // 20200829 17:58:42 I MyUtility: I hear me!
logger.info("we're still ignored!"); // ignored

AWS Logging

Suppress timestamp and logging level for AWS CloudWatch logs

require {terseLogger:logger} = require("log-instance");
logger.info("hello"); // No timestamp or logging level in output