Usage

    const { log, logt } = require("log4jesus");

log

send log data to targets tagged with 'all'

    log("use", ["exactly", "like"], `console.log ${420 * 69}`)

logt

send log data to only targets tagged with one of the tags in the array passed as a first arguement. first argument can be a string or array of strings.

    // send only to targets with the 'verbose' tag
    logt("verbose", "Download progress:", downloadProgress / totalDownloads);

    // send to targets with the 'info' and 'error' tags
    logt(["error", "info"], "failed to parse json at: ", filePath)

Configuration

log4jesus supports 3 types of targets for your log data:

• file
• console
• http

to determine what logs go to which target, edit the file log4jesus.json. there are three arrays defined in that file, associated with a key of either 'file', 'console' or 'http. in each case, the array should be an array of objects with a tags property (which should be a string or array of strings), as well as some other details about how this target should operate.

'file' details

• path: optional string to the file to create

'console' details

• stdstream: required value of 'stdout', 'stderr', or 'stdin'. It's not usually desired to make it 'stdin'.

'http' details

our http object is an extension of the nodejs http/https options object. The object is passed faithfully to http/s.request, so anything you add that is valid for http/s.request will be valid here.

Add a 'url' field to the object to specify the url for the request, which should include both the port and protocol - you usually won't need to set 'hostname' or 'host', or 'path' or 'port' or 'protocol'.

You may commonly have to set the 'headers' object, and the 'content-type' header inside of that object, depending on your server. If it's not provided it's set to 'text/plain'.