# @push.rocks/smartlog 🚀 *The ultimate TypeScript logging solution for modern applications* [![npm version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/@push.rocks/smartlog.svg)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@push.rocks/smartlog) [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) > **smartlog** is a powerful, distributed, and extensible logging system designed for the cloud-native era. Whether you're debugging locally, monitoring production systems, or building complex microservices, smartlog adapts to your needs with style. 🎯 ## 🌟 Why smartlog? - **🎨 Beautiful Console Output**: Color-coded, formatted logs that are actually readable - **🔌 Extensible Architecture**: Plug in any destination - databases, files, remote servers - **🌍 Distributed by Design**: Built for microservices with correlation and context tracking - **⚡ Zero-Config Start**: Works out of the box, scales when you need it - **🎭 Interactive CLI Tools**: Spinners and progress bars that handle non-TTY environments gracefully - **📊 Structured Logging**: JSON-based for easy parsing and analysis - **🔍 Smart Filtering**: Log levels and context-based filtering ## 📦 Installation ```bash # Using pnpm (recommended) pnpm add @push.rocks/smartlog # Using npm npm install @push.rocks/smartlog # Using yarn yarn add @push.rocks/smartlog ``` ## 🚀 Quick Start ### Your First Logger ```typescript import { Smartlog } from '@push.rocks/smartlog'; // Create a logger with context const logger = new Smartlog({ logContext: { company: 'MyStartup', companyunit: 'Backend Team', containerName: 'api-gateway', environment: 'production', runtime: 'node', zone: 'eu-central' } }); // Enable beautiful console output logger.enableConsole(); // Start logging! logger.log('info', '🎉 Application started successfully'); logger.log('error', '💥 Database connection failed', { errorCode: 'DB_TIMEOUT', attemptCount: 3 }); ``` ### Using the Default Logger For quick prototyping and simple applications: ```typescript import { defaultLogger } from '@push.rocks/smartlog'; defaultLogger.log('info', 'This is so easy!'); ``` ## 📚 Core Concepts ### Log Levels smartlog supports semantic log levels for different scenarios: ```typescript // Lifecycle events logger.log('lifecycle', '🔄 Container starting up...'); // Success states logger.log('success', '✅ Payment processed'); logger.log('ok', '👍 Health check passed'); // Information and debugging logger.log('info', '📋 User profile updated'); logger.log('note', '📌 Cache invalidated'); logger.log('debug', '🔍 Query execution plan', { sql: 'SELECT * FROM users' }); // Warnings and errors logger.log('warn', '⚠️ Memory usage above 80%'); logger.log('error', '❌ Failed to send email'); // Verbose output logger.log('silly', '🔬 Entering function processPayment()'); ``` ### Log Groups for Correlation Perfect for tracking request flows through your system: ```typescript // Track a user request through multiple operations const requestGroup = logger.createLogGroup('req-7f3a2b'); requestGroup.log('info', 'Received POST /api/users'); requestGroup.log('debug', 'Validating request body'); requestGroup.log('info', 'Creating user in database'); requestGroup.log('success', 'User created successfully', { userId: 'usr_123' }); // All logs in the group share the same correlation ID ``` ## 🎯 Log Destinations ### Built-in Destinations #### 🖥️ Local Console (Enhanced) Beautiful, colored output for local development: ```typescript import { DestinationLocal } from '@push.rocks/smartlog/destination-local'; const localDestination = new DestinationLocal({ logLevel: 'debug' // Optional: filter by minimum log level }); logger.addLogDestination(localDestination); ``` #### 📁 File Logging Persist logs to files with automatic rotation support: ```typescript import { SmartlogDestinationFile } from '@push.rocks/smartlog/destination-file'; const fileDestination = new SmartlogDestinationFile('./logs/app.log'); logger.addLogDestination(fileDestination); ``` #### 🌐 Browser DevTools Optimized for browser environments with styled console output: ```typescript import { SmartlogDestinationDevtools } from '@push.rocks/smartlog/destination-devtools'; const devtools = new SmartlogDestinationDevtools(); logger.addLogDestination(devtools); ``` #### 📊 ClickHouse Analytics Store logs in ClickHouse for powerful analytics: ```typescript import { SmartlogDestinationClickhouse } from '@push.rocks/smartlog/destination-clickhouse'; const clickhouse = await SmartlogDestinationClickhouse.createAndStart({ host: 'analytics.example.com', port: 8123, database: 'logs', user: 'logger', password: process.env.CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD }); logger.addLogDestination(clickhouse); // Query your logs with SQL! // SELECT * FROM logs WHERE level = 'error' AND timestamp > now() - INTERVAL 1 HOUR ``` #### 🔗 Remote Receiver Send logs to a centralized logging service: ```typescript import { SmartlogDestinationReceiver } from '@push.rocks/smartlog/destination-receiver'; const receiver = new SmartlogDestinationReceiver({ endpoint: 'https://logs.mycompany.com/ingest', apiKey: process.env.LOG_API_KEY, batchSize: 100, // Send logs in batches flushInterval: 5000 // Flush every 5 seconds }); logger.addLogDestination(receiver); ``` ### 🛠️ Custom Destinations Build your own destination for any logging backend: ```typescript import { ILogDestination, ILogPackage } from '@push.rocks/smartlog/interfaces'; class ElasticsearchDestination implements ILogDestination { private client: ElasticsearchClient; constructor(config: ElasticsearchConfig) { this.client = new ElasticsearchClient(config); } async handleLog(logPackage: ILogPackage): Promise { await this.client.index({ index: `logs-${new Date().toISOString().split('T')[0]}`, body: { '@timestamp': logPackage.timestamp, level: logPackage.level, message: logPackage.message, context: logPackage.context, data: logPackage.data, correlation: logPackage.correlation } }); } } // Use your custom destination logger.addLogDestination(new ElasticsearchDestination({ node: 'https://elasticsearch.example.com' })); ``` ## 🎨 Interactive Console Features ### Spinners Create beautiful loading animations that degrade gracefully in CI/CD: ```typescript import { SmartlogSourceInteractive } from '@push.rocks/smartlog/source-interactive'; const spinner = new SmartlogSourceInteractive(); // Basic usage spinner.text('🔄 Fetching data from API...'); // ... perform async operation spinner.finishSuccess('✅ Data fetched successfully!'); // Chained operations spinner .text('📡 Connecting to database') .successAndNext('🔍 Running migrations') .successAndNext('🌱 Seeding data') .finishSuccess('🎉 Database ready!'); // Customize appearance spinner .setSpinnerStyle('dots') // dots, line, star, simple .setColor('cyan') // any terminal color .setSpeed(80) // animation speed in ms .text('🚀 Deploying application...'); // Handle failures try { await deployApp(); spinner.finishSuccess('✅ Deployed!'); } catch (error) { spinner.finishFail('❌ Deployment failed'); } ``` ### Progress Bars Track long-running operations with style: ```typescript import { SmartlogProgressBar } from '@push.rocks/smartlog/source-interactive'; // Create a progress bar const progress = new SmartlogProgressBar({ total: 100, width: 40, complete: '█', incomplete: '░', showEta: true, showPercent: true, showCount: true }); // Update progress for (let i = 0; i <= 100; i++) { progress.update(i); await someAsyncWork(); } progress.complete(); // Real-world example: Processing files const files = await getFiles(); const progress = new SmartlogProgressBar({ total: files.length, width: 50 }); for (const [index, file] of files.entries()) { await processFile(file); progress.increment(); // or progress.update(index + 1) } ``` ### Non-Interactive Fallback Both spinners and progress bars automatically detect non-interactive environments (CI/CD, Docker logs, piped output) and fallback to simple text output: ``` [Loading] Connecting to database [Success] Connected to database [Loading] Running migrations Progress: 25% (25/100) Progress: 50% (50/100) Progress: 100% (100/100) [Success] Migrations complete ``` ## 🔧 Advanced Features ### Context Management Add context that flows through your entire application: ```typescript // Set global context logger.addLogContext({ requestId: 'req-123', userId: 'user-456', feature: 'payment-processing' }); // All subsequent logs include this context logger.log('info', 'Processing payment'); // Output includes: { ...context, message: 'Processing payment' } ``` ### Scoped Logging Create scoped loggers for different components: ```typescript const dbLogger = logger.createScope('database'); const apiLogger = logger.createScope('api'); dbLogger.log('info', 'Executing query'); apiLogger.log('info', 'Handling request'); // Logs include scope information for filtering ``` ### Minimum Log Levels Control log verbosity per environment: ```typescript const logger = new Smartlog({ logContext: { environment: 'production' }, minimumLogLevel: 'warn' // Only warn and above in production }); // These won't be logged in production logger.log('debug', 'Detailed debug info'); logger.log('info', 'Regular info'); // These will be logged logger.log('warn', 'Warning message'); logger.log('error', 'Error message'); ``` ### Increment Logging Perfect for metrics and counters: ```typescript // Track API calls logger.increment('info', 'api.requests', { endpoint: '/users', method: 'GET' }); logger.increment('info', 'api.requests', { endpoint: '/users', method: 'POST' }); // Track errors by type logger.increment('error', 'payment.failed', { reason: 'insufficient_funds' }); logger.increment('error', 'payment.failed', { reason: 'card_declined' }); ``` ### Capture All Console Output Redirect all console.log and console.error through smartlog: ```typescript logger.enableConsole({ captureAll: true // Capture all console.* methods }); console.log('This goes through smartlog!'); console.error('This too!'); // All console output is now structured and routed through your destinations ``` ## 🏗️ Real-World Examples ### Microservice with Distributed Tracing ```typescript import { Smartlog } from '@push.rocks/smartlog'; import { SmartlogDestinationClickhouse } from '@push.rocks/smartlog/destination-clickhouse'; // Initialize logger with service context const logger = new Smartlog({ logContext: { company: 'TechCorp', companyunit: 'Platform', containerName: 'user-service', environment: process.env.NODE_ENV, runtime: 'node', zone: process.env.CLOUD_ZONE } }); // Add ClickHouse for analytics const clickhouse = await SmartlogDestinationClickhouse.createAndStart({ host: process.env.CLICKHOUSE_HOST, database: 'microservices_logs' }); logger.addLogDestination(clickhouse); // Enable local console for development if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') { logger.enableConsole(); } // Express middleware for request tracking app.use((req, res, next) => { const requestId = generateRequestId(); const logGroup = logger.createLogGroup(requestId); // Attach logger to request req.logger = logGroup; // Log request logGroup.log('info', 'Incoming request', { method: req.method, path: req.path, ip: req.ip }); // Track response res.on('finish', () => { logGroup.log('info', 'Request completed', { statusCode: res.statusCode, duration: Date.now() - req.startTime }); }); next(); }); ``` ### CLI Tool with Progress Tracking ```typescript import { Smartlog } from '@push.rocks/smartlog'; import { SmartlogSourceInteractive, SmartlogProgressBar } from '@push.rocks/smartlog/source-interactive'; const logger = new Smartlog({ logContext: { containerName: 'migration-tool', environment: 'cli' } }); logger.enableConsole(); async function migrateDatabase() { const spinner = new SmartlogSourceInteractive(); // Connect to database spinner.text('🔌 Connecting to database...'); await connectDB(); spinner.finishSuccess('✅ Connected to database'); // Get migrations spinner.text('📋 Loading migrations...'); const migrations = await getMigrations(); spinner.finishSuccess(`✅ Found ${migrations.length} migrations`); // Run migrations with progress bar const progress = new SmartlogProgressBar({ total: migrations.length, width: 40, showEta: true }); for (const [index, migration] of migrations.entries()) { logger.log('info', `Running migration: ${migration.name}`); await runMigration(migration); progress.update(index + 1); } progress.complete(); logger.log('success', '🎉 All migrations completed successfully!'); } ``` ### Production Logging with Multiple Destinations ```typescript import { Smartlog } from '@push.rocks/smartlog'; import { DestinationLocal } from '@push.rocks/smartlog/destination-local'; import { SmartlogDestinationFile } from '@push.rocks/smartlog/destination-file'; import { SmartlogDestinationReceiver } from '@push.rocks/smartlog/destination-receiver'; const logger = new Smartlog({ logContext: { company: 'Enterprise Corp', containerName: 'payment-processor', environment: 'production', runtime: 'node', zone: 'us-east-1' }, minimumLogLevel: 'info' // No debug logs in production }); // Console for container logs (structured for log aggregators) logger.addLogDestination(new DestinationLocal()); // File for audit trail logger.addLogDestination(new SmartlogDestinationFile('/var/log/app/audit.log')); // Central logging service logger.addLogDestination(new SmartlogDestinationReceiver({ endpoint: 'https://logs.enterprise.com/ingest', apiKey: process.env.LOG_API_KEY, batchSize: 100, flushInterval: 5000 })); // Critical error alerts logger.addLogDestination({ async handleLog(logPackage) { if (logPackage.level === 'error' && logPackage.data?.critical) { await sendAlert({ channel: 'ops-team', message: `🚨 Critical error: ${logPackage.message}`, data: logPackage }); } } }); ``` ## 🔌 Integration with Other Tools ### PM2 Integration ```typescript // ecosystem.config.js module.exports = { apps: [{ name: 'api', script: './dist/index.js', error_file: '/dev/null', // Disable PM2 error log out_file: '/dev/null', // Disable PM2 out log merge_logs: true, env: { NODE_ENV: 'production', // smartlog handles all logging } }] }; ``` ### Docker Integration ```dockerfile FROM node:18-alpine WORKDIR /app COPY . . RUN pnpm install --production # smartlog handles structured logging # No need for special log drivers CMD ["node", "dist/index.js"] ``` ```yaml # docker-compose.yml services: app: build: . environment: - NODE_ENV=production # Logs are structured JSON, perfect for log aggregators logging: driver: "json-file" options: max-size: "10m" max-file: "3" ``` ## 🏆 Best Practices ### 1. Use Semantic Log Levels ```typescript // ✅ Good - semantic and meaningful logger.log('lifecycle', 'Server starting on port 3000'); logger.log('success', 'Database connection established'); logger.log('error', 'Failed to process payment', { orderId, error }); // ❌ Bad - everything is 'info' logger.log('info', 'Server starting'); logger.log('info', 'Database connected'); logger.log('info', 'Error: payment failed'); ``` ### 2. Include Structured Data ```typescript // ✅ Good - structured data for analysis logger.log('error', 'API request failed', { endpoint: '/api/users', statusCode: 500, duration: 1234, userId: 'usr_123', errorCode: 'INTERNAL_ERROR' }); // ❌ Bad - data embedded in message logger.log('error', `API request to /api/users failed with 500 in 1234ms for user usr_123`); ``` ### 3. Use Log Groups for Correlation ```typescript // ✅ Good - correlated logs async function processOrder(orderId: string) { const logGroup = logger.createLogGroup(orderId); logGroup.log('info', 'Processing order'); logGroup.log('debug', 'Validating items'); logGroup.log('info', 'Charging payment'); logGroup.log('success', 'Order processed'); } // ❌ Bad - no correlation async function processOrder(orderId: string) { logger.log('info', `Processing order ${orderId}`); logger.log('debug', `Validating items for ${orderId}`); logger.log('info', `Charging payment for ${orderId}`); } ``` ### 4. Environment-Specific Configuration ```typescript // ✅ Good - different configs per environment const logger = new Smartlog({ logContext: { environment: process.env.NODE_ENV, // ... other context }, minimumLogLevel: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? 'info' : 'silly' }); // Add destinations based on environment if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') { logger.addLogDestination(clickhouseDestination); logger.addLogDestination(alertingDestination); } else { logger.enableConsole(); } ``` ## 📖 API Reference ### Smartlog Class ```typescript class Smartlog { constructor(options?: ISmartlogOptions) // Logging methods log(level: TLogLevel, message: string, data?: any, correlation?: ILogCorrelation): void increment(level: TLogLevel, key: string, data?: any): void // Configuration enableConsole(options?: IConsoleOptions): void addLogDestination(destination: ILogDestination): void addLogContext(context: Partial): void // Log groups createLogGroup(transactionId?: string): LogGroup createScope(scopeName: string): Smartlog } ``` ### Log Levels ```typescript type TLogLevel = | 'silly' // Very verbose debugging | 'debug' // Debug information | 'info' // Informational messages | 'note' // Notable events | 'ok' // Success confirmation | 'success' // Major success | 'warn' // Warning messages | 'error' // Error messages | 'lifecycle' // Application lifecycle events ``` ### Log Package Structure ```typescript interface ILogPackage { timestamp: number; level: TLogLevel; message: string; data?: any; context: ILogContext; correlation?: ILogCorrelation; } ``` For complete API documentation, see [API.md](API.md). ## 🤝 Contributing We welcome contributions! 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