pino-prettier

A terminal pino json-stream beautifier, based on pino-prettyGiven that your svr.js uses pino and emits json-stream to stdout, then:

node svr.js | prettier

installation

global

npm i -g 'pino-prettier'

After which, your machine has learnt a new command, prettier to which you may pipe the stdoutput of your pino logger program.

local to project

npm i -g 'pino-prettier'

After which you may use it in your package.json scripts.
e.g.:

"scripts": {
   ...
  "run": "node svr.js | prettier",
  ...
},

what's the difference from pino-pretty ?

- meta objects are formatted using util.inspect which uses colors instead of the noisyjson.stringify - timestamp is "humanized" as just HH:MM:ss.l - the log channel is part of the formatted main line, and colorized with a unique color per channel. - level field appears first, to make its color distinctive against the indent black, and less confusing with the colorized channels. - fields are optimized for developer machine (filter out host, pid, version, etc)

Customization

This first version is customizable as far as CLI arguments supported by pino-pretty: it works by hacking the --config parameter, and injecting it's own config file, and does some hacky stuff on the way.
However, every customization that is supported by CLI arguments are stronger than the baked-in config file shipped with this package.
Have fun :)