A Node.js log library that enables you to view logs in Chrome dev tools

ServerLog

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A simple, practical, and innovative Node.js log library that enables you to view logs in Chrome dev tools.

ServerLog contains the following features:

• Friendly log output format;
• Support info, warn, error 3 log levels, as simple as possible API design;
• By registering Express middleware, can automatically attach the request URL to the end of the log;
• The log generated by the same batch request generates a Request ID to facilitate the association and filtering of the logs;
• The accompanying Chrome extension allows you to view logs in Chrome dev tools.

Preview

• Output to Chrome extension:

Get started

Install

> npm i --save serverlog-node

Usage

const serverlog = require('serverlog-node'); const logger = serverlog.getLogger('home'); logger.info('Something to log...');

If you are using Express framework, you can get following functionality by registering middleware:

• Automatically add request ID in the request log.
• Automatically add the current URL in the request log.
• Send the request log to the Chrome extension, where you can view the logs in the dev tools (F12).

const express = require('express'); const app = express(); const serverlog = require('serverlog-node'); const logger = serverlog.getLogger(); app.use(serverlog.middleware()); app.use((req, res) => { logger.info('Something to log within request...'); res.send('Hello World!'); });

Chrome extension

It's easier to view logs using the accompanying Chrome extension.

https://github.com/eshengsky/ServerLog/tree/master/chrome-extension-server-log

Api

serverlog

config(Options)

Overwrite the default settings with the incoming Options.

Options: parameters object.

serverlog.config({ console: { colors: true, depth: null, appendUrl: true, forceSingleLine: false }, extension: { enable: true, key: 'yourownsecretkey' } });

The full parameters supported are as follows:

Property name	Description	Type	Default
console.colors	Enable colors	boolean	true
console.depth	The parsing depth of the object, see here util.inspect	number	null
console.appendUrl	Automatically attach the current request URL to the end of the log	boolean	true
console.forceSingleLine	Force each log to not wrap	boolean	false
extension.enable	Enable Chrome extension functions	boolean	true
extension.key	The key set here will not output the log until the same as the secret key set in the Chrome extension	string	yourownsecretkey
extension.maxLength	Max length of logs, in kb units	number	80

middleware()

Registers log middleware that supports frameworks that are compatible with Express middleware.

app.use(serverlog.middleware());

getLogger(categoryName)

Create and return a logger instance.

categoryName: String, log category name, default: normal.

logger

info(arg1, arg2, ...args)

Logs an info log that can be passed in to any type, any number of parameters.

logger.info('This is an info log.');

warn(arg1, arg2, ...args)

Logs an warning log that can be passed in to any type, any number of parameters.

let undef; logger.warn('This is a warning log.', 'Take care, undef value is:', undef);

error(arg1, arg2, ...args)

Logs an error log that can be passed in to any type, any number of parameters.

try { foo.bar(); } catch (err) { logger.error('This is an error log. Error:', err); }

infoC(arg1, arg2, ...args), warnC(arg1, arg2, ...args), errorC(arg1, arg2, ...args)

Output only the corresponding logs to the terminal.

infoE(arg1, arg2, ...args), warnE(arg1, arg2, ...args), errorE(arg1, arg2, ...args)

Output only the corresponding logs to the Chrome extension.

// Print the full file content in the Chrome extension logger.infoE('read data from local file:', JSON.parse(data)); // Just print a little in console logger.infoC('read data from local file, please view data in Chrome extension.');

Request ID

What is request ID

After registered middleware, all the logs associated with the request contain a request ID by default. In the same request, the request ID for all logs must be the same, and the request ID must be different in different requests.

For example, when user A accesses the index.html process ServerLog prints 10 logs, the request ID for the 10 logs are the same, and user B also accesses the page, resulting in 10 logs, which must also have the same request ID, but different from the request ID of User A 。

Main role

Lets you be able to correlate all the logs you need in a large number of logs, as long as you know the request ID of one log.

How to find request ID

When you can navigate to a log related to a request, between the category name of log and the contents of the log, is the request ID. For example, the following Ra8dx5lAL:

[2019-05-08 15:23:06.911] [INFO] home - {Ra8dx5lAL} This is an info log. (URL: http://localhost:3000/) 

If you can listen to a network request for a page, the response header X-Request-Id is the request ID:

X-Request-Id: Ra8dx5lAL 

Persistence

ServerLog only output to stdout and stderr, does not provide the ability to log persistence, but you can do so in other ways:

If you deploy your project with PM2, logs will automatically save to the disk file. You can use PM2's own log management function to achieve log viewing, rotate, and so on.

By default, log file saved into $HOME/.pm2/logs directory.

In a Linux environment, it is easy to redirect the output to a file with very simple commands, such as:

node server.js > logfile.txt

Specific can be referred here。

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019 孙正华 Sky

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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