Node.js Winston logging

Question

In my node app I am using "Winston" Logging to print the errors in a separate file.

I followed this tutorial.

When I tried to access the logger from other files....

My code:

var winston = require('winston');
var fs = require('fs');

fs.mkdir('./logs', function(err) {
    if (err) throw err;
});

// Define levels to be like log4j in java
var customLevels = {
  levels: {
    debug: 0,
    info: 1,
    warn: 2,
    error: 3
  },
  colors: {
    debug: 'blue',
    info: 'green',
    warn: 'yellow',
    error: 'red'
  }
};

// create the main logger
var logger = new(winston.Logger)({
    level: 'debug',
    levels: customLevels.levels,
    transports: [
        // setup console logging
        new(winston.transports.Console)({
            level: 'info', // Only write logs of info level or higher
            levels: customLevels.levels,
            colorize: true
        }),
        // setup logging to file
        new(winston.transports.File)({
            filename: './logs/project-debug.log',
            maxsize: 1024 * 1024 * 10, // 10MB
            level: 'debug',
            levels: customLevels.levels
        })
    ]
});

// create the data logger - I only log specific app output data here
var datalogger = new (winston.Logger) ({
    level: 'info',
    transports: [
        new (winston.transports.File) ({
            filename: './logs/project-data.log',
            maxsize: 1024 * 1024 * 10 // 10MB
        })
    ]
});

// make winston aware of your awesome colour choices
winston.addColors(customLevels.colors);

var Logging = function() {
    var loggers = {};

    // always return the singleton instance, if it has been initialised once already.
    if (Logging.prototype._singletonInstance) {
        return Logging.prototype._singletonInstance;
    }

    this.getLogger = function(name) {
        return loggers[name];
    }

    Logging.prototype.get = this.getLogger;

    loggers['project-debug.log'] = logger;
    loggers['project-data.log'] = datalogger;

    Logging.prototype._singletonInstance = this;
};

new Logging(); // I decided to force instantiation of the singleton logger here

logger.info('Logging set up OK!');

module.exports = Logging;

Error is throwing:

Logging() is undefined.

Answer 1

The tutorial seems to have a bunch of errors. I got it working by calling

var logger = logging.Logging().get('project-debug.log');

Notice the .log in the argument. The argument has to match one of the names defined in the loggers array.