Expose child on default logger

[adrianhopebailie]

This allows use to add child loggers to the default logger.

This makes it easy to establish a pattern for sub-components to scope their logs without needing to call createLogger or be passed the application logger.

Example:

app.js

const winston = require('winston');
winston.configure({
  level: 'info',
  format: winston.format.combine(
    winston.format.colorize(),
    winston.format.json()
  ),
  defaultMeta: { service: 'abc-service' },
  transports: [
    new winston.transports.Console()
  ]
})

component-xyz.js

const logger = require('winston').child({ component: 'xyz-middleware' });

[DABH]

Always good to have a consistent interface between regular loggers and the default logger.

And... that call-style looks pretty slick :)

Thanks!

[Richard-Walton]

Love it, I was just looking for this feature. Ty. Is there an ETA for when this will appear on npm?

[adrianhopebailie]

@DABH any ETA on when this will appear in a release? Even a patch would be nice 😬

[DABH]

We’ll probably cut a release in a week or two (sorry for vague estimate). In the meantime feel free to reference the master branch directly in your package.json :) Thanks!

[Richard-Walton]

@DABH Any update on this release?

[matdehaast]

@DABH Same as above. Any news on cutting a release with this in?

[adrianhopebailie]

@DABH Ping! Last release was on 29 Jan. This is non-breaking could we just get a patch with the latest fixes in master?

[DABH]

You will have to ping @indexzero as I can’t push a new tag to npm unfortunately

[matdehaast]

@indexzero could we please get a new version of Winston tagged and released?

[Richard-Walton]

@indexzero ?

[richjyoung]

Any update on this? @indexzero ? Issue #1767 is still open as well with no response even though this commit looks to resolve it.