Pingu Console

Configurable console and file output for managing logging and log levels within console.* calls on universal JavaScript applications.

Features

• server side console output is written to a log file
• configurable log levels
• can be used a drop-in replacement for console or used as a separate lib

Install

npm install pingu-console --save

Usage

In each script where you want Pingu:

ES6

import console from 'pingu-console';

CommonJS

console = require('pingu-console');

If you wish to use Pingu alongside the existing console, this is also possible.

import pingu from 'pingu-console';

pingu.log('Pingu is working!'); // => PINGU [LOG]: Pingu is working!

Logging

On the server, Pingu outputs to the console and writes output to the log file.

console.log('Pingu is working!'); // => PINGU [LOG]: Pingu is working!

Not limited to just console.log, you can also use the dir, warn and error verbs.

console.warn('Heads up, something isn\'t working!'); // => PINGU [WARN]: Heads up, something isn't working!
console.error('Slow your roll, things are broken!'); // => PINGU [ERROR]: Slow your roll, things are broken!

When using warn and error, the stack trace is also logged.

Log file

The default pingu.log location is log/ within your application root.

Change your log file location:

console.setLogDir('log2');

Set this as early as possible, preferably in server.js or app.js on your server side application.

Log level

Pingu's default log level is 1.

The log levels available are:

• 1 => writes everything passed through the console
• 2 => writes warn and error only
• 3 => writes error only

Change your log level:

console.setLogLevel(2); // => PINGU: Set log level to 2

Set this as early as possible, preferably in server.js or app.js on your server side application.

Webpack

Pingu supports webpack. Update your webpack config like so:

devServer: {...},
node: {fs: 'empty'}, // => Add this line to webpack.config or amend your existing node object
plugins: {...}

Contributing

Contributions welcome. Please submit all pull requests against the master branch.

Issues

Please use the GitHub issue tracker.

Author

Darryl Walker [email protected] https://github.com/penguinofwar