debug-pest

Commonly useful logging extensions over visionmedia's debug
Extremely lightweight and wraps over debug.

Features

1. Log levels - Drop in replacement for console, mostly (ie implements log, warn & error)
2. Easy child instances
3. Each log-level of a logger (parent or child), is its own debug instance.
4. Debug is unpluggable - Simply don't pass debug to this, to unplug debug completely.

Note

1. debug-pest is a extremely light wrapper over 'debug', and is purposely setup to use 'debug' as an optional dependency - to reduce weight where debug might only be needed for testing (for eg). If 'debug' is not provided, it will disable (.enable = false) the loggers silently, without affecting your code.

2. This implementation deviates slightly from the original convention set by debug.

The topmost namespace is not your app's name, but the log level. This is to allow configs like :

• ('errors:* , -logs:* , -warnings:* ') : Show all errors, but suppress logs & warnings, irrespective of module

Usage

const debug = require('debug');
debug.enable('*');
const debug-pest = require('debug-pest')(debug);  // Don't pass debug, to unplug it.

const parent = new debug-pest('Parent');

/* Loggers are enabled only when debug is provided.

Using "parent.enabled &&" as below is not necessary, but may be more efficient  when the loggers are disabled, than simply calling .log(), .warn(), .error() as is - because it avoids those function calls entirely.

*/
parent.enabled && parent.log('Hello. This is a log from parent');
parent.enabled && parent.warn('Hello. this is a warning from parent');
parent.enabled && parent.error('Hello. this is an error from parent');

const child = parent.child('child1');
child.enabled && child.log('Hello. This is a log from child1');

Roadmap

• Output to file(s), paired with a web based filtered log viewer.