node-LoggerJS

Builds on LoggerJS's skeleton to provide similar logging functionalities for Node.js modules.

Features:

• Uses the console to output information to the Browser Developer Tools.
• Supports sending the log entry (as JSON) to some Log Server.
• Supports write to log files
• custom tasks to be processed on specified log levels.
• Handles unexpected errors in the window.
• Handles process exits => report shutdown and kill

Please report bugs there on GitHub.

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Usage

Set Dependency

Add following entry to your package.json in the dependencies property

"dependencies": {
  "loggerjs" : "0.0.x"
},

Instanciate

Use a Logger instance in a Node.js module

var LoggerJS = require('loggerjs'),
options = {
  namespace :    'my.awesome.project',
  status :       true,
  logLevel :     LoggerJS.DEBUG,
  logServerUrl : '<logging_service_url>',
  tags :         ['myproject', 'node', 'something']
},
logger = new LoggerJS.Logger(options);

please refer to the LoggerJS README for an up to date list of options.

API

please refer to the LoggerJS README for an up to date API description.

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Logfile API (Node specific)

useLogfile

Activates writing log entries to files.

Parameter:

• path: absolute path to the logfile

Example:

// activates file logging
logger.useLogfile(<path>);

enableLogfile

Enables logfile task.

Example:

// enables file logging
logger.enableLogfile();

disableLogfile

Disables logfile task.

Example:

// disables file logging
logger.disableLogfile();