Mei

My prefered defaults for the Winston (Mei, get it?) Logger.

About

Winston is a great logging framework, and it's incredibly configurable.

I have a bunch of prefered defaults, and this repository is a quick wrapper around winston for that.

API

Create a logger.ts/js file in your project that does the following:

import { CreateLogger } from "mei-logger";

const logger = CreateLogger("my_project_name");

export default logger;

Then you can import logger from "your_logger_file"; and use that in your project.

The second argument lets you pass a default log level. It's set to "info" by default. If process.env.LOG_LEVEL is set, then that will be used. If a log level is passed to the function, that will take priority over the env var.

Levels

I have 7 log levels:

levels: {
	crit: 0, // entire process termination is necessary
	severe: 1, // something is wrong, and more than one function is affected (such as a failed assertion that is definitely expected to be true).
	error: 2, // function call (or related process) has failed unexpectedly
	warn: 3, // function call has hit something it didn't want, but can recover
	info: 4, // something has happened that is expected, but worth logging
	verbose: 5, // something has happened
	debug: 6, // glorified console.log debugging
},

Everything Else

It's just a winston logger with some different types. See their documentation for everything else.