logly

logly is a small logging framework in the nodejs ecosystem that also allows one to set debug or verbose logging modes. It is useful to replace comments that describe what the code is doing, especially in debug mode.

Usage

var logly = require( 'logly' );

logly.name( 'myapp' );
logly.mode( 'debug' );

logly.debug( 'debug log' );
// stdout: myapp[debug]: debug log

logly.verbose( 'verbose log' );
// stdout: myapp[verbose]: verbose log

logly.log( 'standard log' );
// stdout: myapp: standard log

logly.warn( 'warning log' );
// stderr: myapp[warn]: warning log

logly.error( 'error log' );
// stderr: myapp[error]: error log

logly.stdout( 'stdout log' );
// stdout: stdout log
// *above does not include 'myapp'

logly.stderr( 'stderr log' );
// stderr: stderr log
// *above does not include 'myapp'

functions as input

logly also accepts functions as input; this is primarily to conditionally produce a debug output of complex something if in debug mode, for example:

var options = { debug: true, output: "some.file" }
// dump options in debug mode
logly.debug( function() {
  for ( var i = 0; i < options.length; i++ ) {
    logly.debug( '[OPTION] ' + option + ": " + options[ option ] );
  }
});
// stdout: myapp[debug]: [OPTION] debug: true
// stdout: myapp[debug]: [OPTION] output: some.file

Options

color/colour

If you want color then you can enable it (by default color is disabled):

logly.options( { color : true } );

You can also use color or colour functions (maintained for backward compatibility):

logly.color(true);
logly.colour(true);

date

You can include a date prefix as well:

logly.options( { date : true } );
logly.log( 'with date' );
// stdout: Wed Aug 22 2012 21:22:52 GMT-0500 (CDT) myapp: with date

ISO8601 format is also available:

logly.options( { date : 'iso' } ); // or 'ISO8601', 'iso8601', 'ISO'
logly.log( 'with iso date' );
// stdout: 2012-08-23T02:26:14.841Z myapp: with iso date

processors

You can do string processing:

var processors = [];
processors.push( function( input ) {
    return input.replace(/\n/g, ' '); // replace newlines with spaces
});
logly.options( { processors: processors } );
logly.log( 'some\nnewlines\nhere\nand\nthere');
// stdout: logly: some newlines here and there

options object

You can pass in the above options all together:

var processors = [];
processors.push( function( input ) {
    return input.replace(/\n/g, ' ');
});
logly.options( { colour : true, date : 'iso' , processors: processors } );