is console.error essential?

[RandomEtc]

I'm using another library that uses log4js which already overrides console.error and adds color formatting and timestamps for errors/warnings. This means all my debug output is red and prefixed with [ERROR].

Is there a way that if debug is imported first it can save an un-monkey-patched version of console.error so it can continue to do synchronous logging... or even to allow a choice of log or error in case people don't want sync logging in debug?

[tj]

i guess it could, but that's kinda odd to replace the console methods

[RandomEtc]

Agreed. I'll go complain to the library that uses log4js first :)

[tj]

I get that they're maybe trying to unify logging for node by patching it, but most libs leave out console.log etc anyway so they might as well just do var console = require('log4js')

[RandomEtc]

Definitely - there's no need to monkey patch it when you can just override the variable locally whenever you need it.