Logging Abstraction in NodeJS Using Winston, Typescript

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This is part two and example of the logging best practices. For part 1: Logging Best Practices with Example.

Features

• Logging at multiple different levels.
• Discarding debug messages in production.
• Writing log messages also file in production.
• Maximum file size of log files.
• The daily rotation of log files.
• Preserving log files for a period of time
• Compressing log files
• Structured logging
• Including context in a log message

Cons

• Function, file name, and line number not be shown in the log message.