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[RFC] Pluggable log handler

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing the proposed global DEBUG_LOG symbol behavior and the existing log defaults; the work is done when the global default can redirect debug output, stderr remains the fallback, and a local self.log still takes precedence.

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Description

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Would you consider a PR that implemented support for globally defaulting log to something other than process.stderr? The way I’d expect this to work is debug would default to stderr unless process[Symbol.for(‘DEBUG_LOG’)] was set. Of course the local self.log would always take precedence.

The motivation for this feature is to allow an application to redirect all debug output to a logger of its choice, without knowing which all dependencies utilize debug.

I’ve chosen a global Symbol to circumvent the issue of multiple versions of debug in codebase.

Happy to submit this. Thoughts?

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