Other than console.log(), there have been morgan, winston, pino and at least hundreds of others.
But, I am very surprised to see no one mentioned debug, it has 22,914,644 weekly downloads as of right this comment.
I can filter out and specify different keywords I put beforehand, can use wildcards for multiple keywords/namespace
Can have namespace colors
Even works on web browser with colorized output
can show ms diff between last msg
...lots of other cool features like streams and the list goes on
and most importantly it is actively developed
Though it is more of a debugging tool than a logging tool, we do have to log a lot while trying to debug, or in most case debugging is the only goal for logging.
There are obvious gotchas, but who cares as long as I can get to see what I wanted to see.
Indeed, debug RULES! So much so I rebuilt my logging lib from scratch so it could incorporate debug's best features.
The biggest gripe I have with it is that it is not full-featured. It basically is ONLY for debug logging. I like to log some info/warning messages as well some times. With debug you still need either a different lib or the console just for that.
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console.log(), there have been morgan, winston, pino and at least hundreds of others.But, I am very surprised to see no one mentioned debug, it has 22,914,644 weekly downloads as of right this comment.
Though it is more of a debugging tool than a logging tool, we do have to log a lot while trying to debug, or in most case debugging is the only goal for logging.
There are obvious gotchas, but who cares as long as I can get to see what I wanted to see.
debug module borks when minimized
You need to configure the compression to let some optimizations through
I also couldnt get it to work on an isomorphic app. Minimizing for node.js and tje web require 2 different approaches
Indeed, debug RULES! So much so I rebuilt my logging lib from scratch so it could incorporate debug's best features.
The biggest gripe I have with it is that it is not full-featured. It basically is ONLY for debug logging. I like to log some info/warning messages as well some times. With debug you still need either a different lib or the console just for that.