log-hogger

Module to have a persistent console methods. Now there are no more untracked console.error or console.warn.

Pre-requisite and requirement

• Make sure mongodb is installed
• No access control to your mongo (Can be accessed without password)

Installation and Usage

Quickstart

• Install the module in your project directory

npm install log-hogger

• Initialize by calling the module as function, and call your favorite console method (Don't forget to run your node script)

const hogger = require("log-hogger");
hogger();
console.log("Hello World!");

• Check your MongoDB collection, and it should appear in log-hogger database in collection named logs

Settings

You can initialize this module with more options, below is the default options and example how to initialize it.

const hogger = require("log-hogger");
const options = {
  mongoUrl: "mongodb://localhost:27017/",
  db: "log-hogger",
  collection: "logs",
  concat: true,
  methods: ["log", "warn", "error", "info"]
};
hogger(options);

If the example is not self explanatory, here is some more details explanation on the options that you can select.

• mongoUrl: URL of the mongo server, on example is the default localhost which is mongodb://localhost:27017/
• db: database of mongo of your choice, default is log-hogger
• collection: name of collection that you want to store the data, default is
• concat: Whether you want to concat the arguments, default is true
• methods: array of console methods that you want to use this module with, default is ["log", "warn", "error", "info"]

More description and Schema

Utilizing MongoDB as the storage. The schema of a saved console methods are maintly stored in string and will look as the following.

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("5968d6fa1450877e77347e1f"),
    "type" : "log",
    "user" : "rjmasikome",
    "file" : "/home/rjmasikome/projects/test/index.js",
    "line" : "8",
    "caller" : "    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/rjmasikome/projects/test/index.js:8:9)",
    "arguments" : "Hello World!",
    "time" : ISODate("2017-07-14T14:36:42.685Z")
}

• _id : unique id of mongodb
• type : type of console methods, such as log, info, warn or error
• user : user that is logged in to the system which runs the node script
• file : the file where this console method is called
• line : line number where this console is called
• caller : line of stacktrace where this method is called
• arguments: arguments or parameter of console method
• time: the timestamp this method is called, stored as Date object