https://github.com/theproductiveprogrammer/express-clean-logger

A blazing fast and useful logger for ExpressJS with key information cleanly shown
https://github.com/theproductiveprogrammer/express-clean-logger

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A blazing fast and useful logger for ExpressJS with key information cleanly shown

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/theproductiveprogrammer/express-clean-logger
• Owner: theproductiveprogrammer
• Created: 2021-08-29T22:29:51.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-03T23:58:14.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-13T03:20:58.002Z (3 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 21.5 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# A Fast & Useful Request Logger for ExpressJS

This module outputs clean logs that outputs useful information for ExpressJS request/responses.

```javascript

const express = require("express")

const app = express()

const clogger = require('express-clean-logger')

app.use(clogger())

```

Remember to set the logger middleware before any actual processing (including `express.static()`).

You can also log to a file (which will rollover every 10,000 logs)

```javascript

app.use(clogger("/var/logs/myapp.log"))

```

The output contains all the main useful information needed:

```

2021-08-29 22:41:47 +20 GET /url/path 100.172.88.84 Chrome Mobile/Android/Generic Smartphone

---- date/time ---- time ---- url -------- ip ------------------- user agent ---------------

      in UTC     taken in ms

...

 2021-08-30 00:30:59 +3 GET /test/page1 ::1 curl/Other/Other

 2021-08-30 00:31:02 +0 GET /test/page2 ::1 Safari/Mac OS X/Other

 2021-08-30 00:31:12 +0 GET /about/this ::1 Chrome/Windows/Other

 2021-08-30 00:33:20 +4 GET /price/pkg ::1 Mobile Safari/iOS/iPhone

...

(on redirect)

>2021-08-30 12:30:21 +1 (301) GET /aboutme -> /gohere ::1 Chrome/Mac OS X/Other

(on error)

!2021-08-30 12:38:17 +2 (404) GET /gohere ::1 Chrome/Mac OS X/Other > error sent

...

```

## Additional Info

When the response is an error, any error `res.sent()` back to the user will also be added to the log. If you would like to specifically add details to the log set the `res.cl_msg` field on the response and it will be logged out:

```javascript

res.cl_msg = "some details"

```

## Echoing

If you want to echo the output along with writing to the file provide the `{echo: true}` parameter:

```javascript

app.use(clogger("/var/logs/myapp.log", { echo: true }))

```

Enjoy!