Winston: Set Console Transport Default Options (colorize: true)

Created on 18 Dec 2012 · 4Comments · Source: winstonjs/winston

Hi,
I was looking to use the Console Transport out of box, but also wanted to have pretty colors. As it stands it appears the only way to achieve this is by removing the default Console Transport and adding it back with an options object, a-la:

var log = require('winston');
log.remove(log.transports.Console);
log.add(log.transports.Console, {colorize: true});

I'm looking to set that option without removing, then adding it back.. perhaps something that piggybacks off of the existing winston.addColors(myCustomLevels.colors); but without an argument, which could also let you potentially override the default color scheme, since it looks like you can't do that right now either (I tried):

var log = require('winston');
log.addColors();

Source

jlank

Most helpful comment

You can just call the cli() method as well.

indexzero on 21 Apr 2013

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:+1:

lxe on 19 Feb 2013

I do this enough to wrap it up into a module log-colors

var log = require('log-colors')
log.debug('yay colors', {
  foo: 'bar'
})

nisaacson on 20 Mar 2013

I have hacked it that way

app.start 3000, ->
  app.log.loggers.default.transports.console.colorize = true

I suspect it's not very elegant, but it works. There are some other interesting properities like prettyPrint and timestamp. It's important to do it inside app.start callback, as app.log is undefined before that.