[RFC] Pluggable log handler
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- observability-sre
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
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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