🪶 express-lifecycle-logger

🧭 Express middleware that logs when each route starts, finishes, or errors — including timestamps and durations.
Perfect for debugging, profiling, or adding simple request tracing to your Express apps.

🚀 Features

• Logs start, finish, and error events per request
• Shows method, URL, status code, and duration
• Supports custom loggers (winston, pino, etc.)
• Generates unique request IDs
• Optional header inclusion and key redaction
• Written in TypeScript with full type definitions

📦 Installation

npm install express-lifecycle-logger
# or
pnpm add express-lifecycle-logger
# or
yarn add express-lifecycle-logger


## 🧩 Usage Example

Here’s how to use **express-lifecycle-logger** in your Express app:

```ts
import express from "express";
import { lifecycleLogger } from "express-lifecycle-logger";

const app = express();

app.use(
  lifecycleLogger({
    includeHeaders: true,
    redactKeys: ["authorization", "cookie"],
    generateRequestId: () => Math.random().toString(36).slice(2, 10),
  })
);

app.get("/", (req, res) => res.send("Lifecycle logger running ✅"));

app.listen(3000, () => console.log("Listening on port 3000"));