infolis-logging

@infolis' best practices for logging with winston

Usage

Without configuration:

 
var log = require('infolis-logging')(module);
 
log.debug("Debugging is the fun part of coding", {"foo":'bar'});

This will log to

• STDOUT with color highlighting the log level and dumping any additional arguments using util.dump after breaking up circular references.
• a file logs/#{__filename of the js module}.log file

With configuration:

Create a module log.js (just a convention, can be anything):

var InfolisLogging = require('infolis-logging');
module.exports = function MyLogging(callingModule) {
    return InfolisLogging(callingModule, {
      level: 'silly',
      filename: 'foo-bar'
    });
});

Then reference that module in your code instead of infolis-logging

var log = require('./log')(module)
log.silly('This line of code rints out a line of log');

API

Since it's just a thin layer atop Winston, the winston API can be used.

In addition, timers can be set up with logstart and logstop to profile things.