Express middleware

Installation

npm i leekslazylogger-express

Usage

// set up logger with options
const ExpressLogger = require('leekslazylogger-express');
const log = new ExpressLogger({
    name: 'My express server', // regular options such as custom types
    express: { // optional
        format: '{method} &7{path}',
        type: 'http'
    },
    custom: {
        http: {
            title: 'info',
            prefix: 'http'
        }
    }
});

// require express
const express = require('express');
const app = express();

// use logger middleware
app.use(log.express);

...
// other middleware and router
...

// start server
app.listen(8080);

The app.use(log.express); must be one of the first middleware, before the routing.

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Options

ExpressLogger takes the same options as normal, as well as an express object:

const log = new ExpressLogger({
    express: {
        format: '{method} &7{path}',
        type: 'console'
    }
});

Format

The default format is: {method} {status-colour}{status} &7{path} {time-colour}({time})

The string can include colour codes.

Placeholders

The available placeholders for setting your own format are:

• {method}: GET/POST etc
• {protocol}: HTTP or HTTPS
• {route}: express route name (eg: /users/:id)
• {path}: Full path (no query)
• {status-colour} / {status-color}: green/orange/blue/red colour code based on status code (to prefix status)
• {status}: status code (200, 301, 404 etc)
• {time-colour} / {time-color}: light green/yellow/red colour code based on time (to prefix time)
• {time}: time in ms for request to be completed

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Last update: February 25, 2021