Loglet - A Simple Logger.

Loglet is a simple configurable logger that can be configured to conditionally log a particular output. This is especially useful to be combined with command line parameter (or configuration files) to determine the output you are logging.

The scenario loglet is designed for is for people who use console.log to trace through the program and has to frequently comment/uncomment them to see the different parts. By using loglet you can leave the programs to be and just enable/disable the comments by passing in settings, which are treated as regular expressions.

Install

npm install loglet 

Usage

var logger = require('loglet');

logger.setKeys(['main', 'test']); // used to determine what to log. 

logger.debug('main.first', 'hello world - this will be logged'); 

logger.debug('test.first', 'this will also be logged');

logger.debug('skip.me', 'this will not be logged');

logger.error({error: 'stuff_happens', description: 'Errors will also be logged'});

Desciption

Do you use console.log to trace and debug the output of the program? If you do you'll find console.log is littered throughout the code, but you'll have to constantly go back and forth to comment/uncomment out the logging. Loglet is a replacement for those logging calls that allows you to leave those code alone but you can turn them on/off based on settings you pass in for the program.

Let's say you use either optimist or yarg to parse the command line. You can then collect the debug arguments as follows:

var argv = require('yargs')
  .alias('d', 'debug')
  .argv;

var logger = require('loglet');

logger.setKeys(argv.d);

logger.debug(...); // logger.debug is the main function that you'll use for conditional logging. 

...

To change what's being logged, just pass in different sets of keys through the command line. The keys are regular expressions, so you can have fine control over what's actually logged.

program -d main -d test\\.