EventEmitter powered debugger and logger for node.js

Konsoles aim is not to be Yet Another Full Blown Logging Framework for node.js. It`s aim is to remove the decision or make the decision and work easier for any module developer of how logging should be done in his module. As a module developer you normally do not want to force or dictate the users of your module to use a specific logging library. You normally want to let your users choose. But you also want to do some logging and debugging since it could be interesting for your module users. Konsole can help you to remove this complex decision and task off of you and lets you concentrate on what you really want to do. :)

You, as a module developer could just use console calls, just as you would normally do. Users of your module could easily plug konsole in their application - where logging and debugging actually belongs to - listen to the events konsole will fire and let them decide what to do with the logs and debug output. Maybe they want to use winston or any other logging framework. It is all possible, because konsole will just emit an event for every call to any console method.

To use konsole directly you will just have to replace all your console calls (e.g.: console.log, console.warn, console.info, console.err, etc.) with a call to a konsole instance, because konsoles API is identical to the well known native console object provided by browsers and node.js.

TL;DR:

"replace the 'c' with a 'k'"

 
var Konsole = require('konsole');
var konsole = new Konsole("MyLabel");
 
// Before:
//console.log("my debug message");
 
// After:
konsole.log("my debug message");

Automatically override console

 
var Konsole = require('konsole/overrideConsole');
 
console.log("my debug message");

Since version 2.x you can automatically let konsole override your console calls. So you do not have to replace your console calls as described above if you want that. To do so you have to add require('konsole/overrideConsole') at the beginning of your module. If you do so, all your console calls will emit an message event and a event according to the log level instead of writing directly to stdout. So a console.warn will emit a message and a warn event. In this case the label gets set to the string 'console'.

Listen for events

 
var restoreConsole = require('konsole/overrideConsole');
 
/**
 * Default Listener for Konsole
 * @param level String Level used for logging. log|info|warn|error
 * @param args Array Original arguments of the konsole.* call
 * @scope konsole
 */
console.on('message', function(level, args) {
    // Scope within callback is the konsole instance.
  // you have access to the following additional information:
  // this.pid         - process id
  // this.processType - master or worker
  // this.label       - passed label. 'console' in case of automatic overriding console.
  // this.trace       - object containing path, line, char, etc. of the actual call
  // this.diff        - diff in milliseconds to the last call with the same label 
  // this.write       - shortcut to process.stdout.write(this.format.apply(this, arguments) + '\n');
  // this.format      - shortcut to util.format
 
    var trace = this.trace; // trace is a getter, if you do not access the property it will not generate a trace
    this.write(" " + this.label + " " + this.processType + ":" + this.pid + " " + level.toUpperCase() + " " +
        "+" + this.diff + "ms " +
        (trace.path ? "(" + trace.path : "") +
        (trace.line ? ":" + trace.line + ") " : "") + "'" +
        this.format.apply(this, args) + "'");
 
});
 
.
.
.
 
// Somewhere in your or any other modules code:
console.warn("Take a look at me. I made something terrible maybe");
 
// Will output something like:
// console master:1234 WARN +200ms (/home/developer/projects/MyApp/node_modules/bar/lib/plugins/bar.js:3456) 'Take a look at me. I made something terrible maybe'

Take a look at the examples folder for a better understanding of how konsole should be used.

Current Version

2.2.0

Usage

Installation

npm install konsole

Example usage

Dummy Example (node examples/index.js)

 
// This will automatically override calls to the internal console object
var restoreConsole = require("konsole/overrideConsole");
 
// You can restore the old console object afterwards.
// After calling console calls will not emit any event - console will work just as normal.
//restoreConsole();
 
// you can also create multiple konsoles with a different labels
// We want to relay events from this konsole to our "main" console object
// so we add it to the relay call.
var Konsole = require("konsole");
var konsole = new Konsole("MyLabel");
 
console.addDefaultListener();
 
// console got overriden from konsole.
// You can use console just as you used it before
console.time("foo");
 
var socketio = require("socketio");
var express = require("express");
var foo = require("foo");
 
// Lets assume that socketio, express or any other library were using konsole.
// To get all logs from those modules we would just relay those konsole events
// You can relay as many konsole objects as you like.
console.relay(socketio.konsole, express.konsole);
 
 
// you can create as many konsole instances as you like.
konsole.log("i will get the label 'MyLabel'");
 
 
// bar module itself does not export a konsole object, but uses
// console.* directly. If you let Konsole override console it will catch all calls and will emit an event instead.
var bar = require("bar");
 
 
console.log("This log message gets not written to stdout"); // This will emit a 'message' event and a 'log' event.
console.info("Instead it emits an event on which you can listen with additional information"); // This will emit a 'message' event and a 'info' event.
 
function doSomething() {
    console.info("I did something");
}
// Just for demonstrating
setInterval(doSomething, 4200);
 
 
// This is not really express and socketio.
// Just for demonstration, we mock those modules
var app = express.createServer();
var io = socketio.listen(app);
 
 
foo.doSomething();
 
console.timeEnd("foo");
 
// This will emit a 'message' event and a 'info' event relayed to  console object.
console.log("process.versions: ", process.versions);
 
foo.doSomethingElse();
console.warn("Warning");

Cluster example from node.js docs (node examples/cluster.js)

 
var restoreConsole = require("konsole/overrideConsole");
var cluster = require('cluster');
var http = require('http');
var numCPUs = require('os').cpus().length;
 
// Add the defaultListener, which will write every message to stdout.
console.addDefaultListener();
 
if (cluster.isMaster) {
    // Fork workers.
    for (var i = 0; i < numCPUs; i++) {
        cluster.fork();
    }
 
    cluster.on('death', function (worker) {
        console.log('died');
    });
    console.log("Listening on http://127.0.0.1:8000");
} else {
    // Worker processes have a http server.
    http.Server(
        function (req, res) {
            console.log("Request: ", req.url);
            res.writeHead(200);
            res.end("hello world\n");
        }).listen(8000);
    console.log("Worker online");
}

Example above will output

node examples/index.js output

$ node examples/index.js
   console master:9148 LOG +0ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/bar/index.js:1) 'I am bar'
   console master:9148 LOG +6ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/index.js:39) 'This log message gets not written to stdout'
   console master:9148 INFO +1ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/index.js:40) 'Instead it emits an event on which you can listen with additional information'
   express master:9148 INFO +0ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/index.js:51) 'listening on 3000 in development mode'
   socket.io master:9148 INFO +0ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/index.js:52) 'Socket.IO started'
   console master:9148 LOG +2ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/index.js:55) 'I am doing something'
   console master:9148 LOG +0ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/index.js:57) 'foo: 16ms'
   console master:9148 LOG +1ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/index.js:60) 'process.versions:  { node: '0.6.10',
    v8: '3.6.6.20',
    ares: '1.7.5-DEV',
    uv: '0.6',
    openssl: '0.9.8o' }'
   console master:9148 WARN +2ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/index.js:62) 'Nooooo!'
   console master:9148 WARN +0ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/index.js:63) 'Warning'
   socket.io master:9148 LOG +1941ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/socketio/index.js:9) 'Heartbeat 1329329348860'
   socket.io master:9148 LOG +2001ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/socketio/index.js:9) 'Heartbeat 1329329350862'
   console master:9148 INFO +4137ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/index.js:43) 'I did something'
   console master:9148 LOG +809ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/foo/index.js:18) 'Did this and that'
   console master:9148 WARN +3ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/foo/index.js:19) 'Nooooo!'
   socket.io master:9148 LOG +2000ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/socketio/index.js:9) 'Heartbeat 1329329352861'
   express master:9148 LOG +6943ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/express/index.js:9) 'Request'
   socket.io master:9148 LOG +2000ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/socketio/index.js:9) 'Heartbeat 1329329354862'
   console master:9148 INFO +3388ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/index.js:43) 'I did something'
   socket.io master:9148 LOG +2000ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/socketio/index.js:9) 'Heartbeat 1329329356862'
   console master:9148 LOG +1603ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/foo/index.js:18) 'Did this and that'
   console master:9148 WARN +2ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/foo/index.js:19) 'Nooooo!'
   socket.io master:9148 LOG +2000ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/socketio/index.js:9) 'Heartbeat 1329329358862'
   console master:9148 INFO +2596ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/index.js:43) 'I did something'
   express master:9148 LOG +6999ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/express/index.js:9) 'Request'
   socket.io master:9148 LOG +2004ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/socketio/index.js:9) 'Heartbeat 1329329360866'
   console master:9148 LOG +2400ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/foo/index.js:18) 'Did this and that'
   console master:9148 WARN +2ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/foo/index.js:19) 'Nooooo!'
   socket.io master:9148 LOG +1996ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/node_modules/socketio/index.js:9) 'Heartbeat 1329329362861'

node examples/cluster.js output


$ node examples/cluster.js
 console master:9170 LOG +0ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:18) 'Listening on http://127.0.0.1:8000'
 console worker:9172 LOG +0ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:27) 'Worker online'
 console worker:9173 LOG +0ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:27) 'Worker online'
 console worker:9173 LOG +10320ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9173 LOG +280ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /favicon.ico'
 console worker:9173 LOG +6398ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9173 LOG +148ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /favicon.ico'
 console worker:9173 LOG +367ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9173 LOG +148ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /favicon.ico'
 console worker:9173 LOG +9ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9173 LOG +76ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9173 LOG +98ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9173 LOG +130ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9173 LOG +7ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9173 LOG +3ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9173 LOG +142ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9173 LOG +87ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9172 LOG +18297ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9172 LOG +143ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9172 LOG +34ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9172 LOG +39ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9172 LOG +3ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9172 LOG +166ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9172 LOG +4ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9172 LOG +151ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9172 LOG +10ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9172 LOG +85ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /'
 console worker:9172 LOG +818ms (/home/developer/projects/konsole/examples/cluster.js:23) 'Request:  /favicon.ico'

License

Konsole is released under the MIT license.

The MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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konsole

EventEmitter powered debugger and logger for node.js

TL;DR:

"replace the 'c' with a 'k'"

Automatically override console

Listen for events

Current Version

Usage

Installation

Example usage

Dummy Example (node examples/index.js)

Cluster example from node.js docs (node examples/cluster.js)

Example above will output

node examples/index.js output

node examples/cluster.js output

License

Readme

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konsole

EventEmitter powered debugger and logger for node.js

TL;DR:

"replace the 'c' with a 'k'"

Automatically override console

Listen for events

Current Version

Usage

Installation

Example usage

Dummy Example (node examples/index.js)

Cluster example from node.js docs (node examples/cluster.js)

Example above will output

node examples/index.js output

node examples/cluster.js output

License

Readme

Keywords

Package Sidebar

Install

Repository

Homepage

DownloadsWeekly Downloads

Version

License

Last publish

Collaborators

Weekly Downloads