Winston Logger

This project is meant to be a guideline for the Winston usage following the proposed best practices.

Setup

This project uses Node.js and Express so make sure, we have node and npm it installed.

https://nodejs.org/en/download

node --version
npm --version

Using deven is an option too. Nodeenv installation, or:

brew install nodeenv

Install dependencies and setup using npm in the project root directory

npm install

Run the Express server

npm run dev

Your server will run on http://localhost:8000/ by defualt.

Here are some useful resources:

• Easy tutorial to setup Express with Typescript in case you're interested: dev.to tutorial
• Create a Node.js virtual environment: Nodeenv tutorial
• Winston official readme: Winston github
• Winston official examples: Winston examples
• Winston Loggin in Node.js: Winston on Node.js guide
• Winston with typescript blog post: Winston with Typescript
• Winston tutorial with a sample Nodejs application: Winston Node.js tutorial
• Winston Stack Overflow good questions:
  • Winston Logger Names
  • Winston 3.0 colorize whole output on console
  • can I change the color of log data in winston?
  • How to colorize parts of log message in winstonJs
  • how to use winston to setup log in a sub directory instead of root directory?
  • Winston doesn't pretty-print to console
  • Remove all loggers from winston container