Nogg: Simple logging for node.js

Configure your logger in config.coffee/config.js in your NODE_PATH:

exports.logging = {

  'default': [
    {file: 'logs/app.log',    level: 'debug'},
    {file: 'stdout',          level: 'warn'}]

  'foo': [
    {file: 'logs/foo.log',    level: 'debug'},
    {forward: 'default'}]

  'access': [
    {file: 'logs/access.log', formatter: null}]

}

Then,

logger = require('nogg').logger('foo.bar')
logger.debug('this is a debug message')                           # logs to logs/foo.log and logs/app.log
logger.error('this is an error')                                  # logs to logs/foo.log, logs/app.log, and stdout

require('nogg').log 'bar.baz', 'debug', 'this is a debug message' # logs to logs/app.log (matches 'default')
require('nogg').warn 'bar', 'this is a warning'                   # logs to logs/app.log and stdout

• The 'default' and 'foo' are "log routes". You must define the 'default' route.
• Each log route has N handlers.
• Log route are "dot aware", so log messages to "foo.bar" will match the "foo" route unless "foo.bar" happens to be defined.
• Messages do not propagate up (ala log4j).
• stdout messages are in color.
• You can turn off formatting/color for a handler with formatter: null.

Installation

npm install nogg

Roadmap

• Real log formatting
• Connect module for request logging

Development

npm link . maybe as sudo, to link this project directory globally. cake build to build src/.coffee to lib/ cake test to build and run a test script