Common logging for node, express application — best practice?

Question

I\'m working on an node.js application with several dozen modules and using bunyan for logging (JSON output, multiple configurable streams). I\'ve been looking for good e

Answer 1

Singleton pattern in nodejs - is it needed? Actually, singleton is perhaps not needed in Node's environment. All you need to do is to create a logger in a separate file say, logger.js:

var bunyan = require("bunyan"); // Bunyan dependency
var logger = bunyan.createLogger({name: "myLogger"});

module.exports = logger;

Then, retrieve this logger from another module:

var logger = require("./logger");
logger.info("Anything you like");