Improve debugging discoverability

apps/teams-test-app/src/components/LoggerAPIs.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import { logger } from '@microsoft/teams-js';
+import React, { ReactElement } from 'react';
+
+import { ApiWithoutInput } from './utils';
+import { ModuleWrapper } from './utils/ModuleWrapper';
+
+const TurnOnConsoleLog = (): React.ReactElement =>
+  ApiWithoutInput({
+    name: 'turnOnConsoleLog',
+    title: 'Turn On Console Log',
+    onClick: async () => {
+      logger.turnOnConsoleLog();
+      return 'true';
+    },
+  });
+
+const TurnOffConsoleLog = (): React.ReactElement =>
+  ApiWithoutInput({
+    name: 'turnOffConsoleLog',
+    title: 'Turn Off Console Log',
+    onClick: async () => {
+      logger.turnOffConsoleLog();
+      return 'true';
+    },
+  });
+const LoggerAPIs = (): ReactElement => (
+  <ModuleWrapper title="Logger">
+    <TurnOnConsoleLog />
+    <TurnOffConsoleLog />
+  </ModuleWrapper>
+);
+
+export default LoggerAPIs;

apps/teams-test-app/src/pages/TestApp.tsx

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import GeoLocationAPIs from '../components/GeoLocationAPIs';
 import HostEntityTabAPIs from '../components/HostEntityTabAPIs';
 import Links from '../components/Links';
 import LocationAPIs from '../components/LocationAPIs';
+import LoggerAPIs from '../components/LoggerAPIs';
 import LogAPIs from '../components/LogsAPIs';
 import MailAPIs from '../components/MailAPIs';
 import MarketplaceAPIs from '../components/MarketplaceAPIs';
@@ -126,6 +127,7 @@ export const TestApp: React.FC = () => {
         <Links />
         <LocationAPIs />
         <LogAPIs />
+        <LoggerAPIs />
         <MailAPIs />
         <MarketplaceAPIs />
         <MediaAPIs />

change/@microsoft-teams-js-65d123d3-bbbc-4e7e-abc8-7396d65b2950.json

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "type": "minor",
+  "comment": "Added a capability for better logging discoverability",
+  "packageName": "@microsoft/teams-js",
+  "email": "[email protected]",
+  "dependentChangeType": "patch"
+}

packages/teams-js/src/internal/globalVars.ts

@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@ export class GlobalVars {
   public static hostClientType: string | undefined = undefined;
   public static clientSupportedSDKVersion: string;
   public static printCapabilityEnabled = false;
+  public static turnOnConsoleLog = false;
 }

packages/teams-js/src/internal/telemetry.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { debug as registerLogger, Debugger } from 'debug';
 
+import { GlobalVars } from './globalVars';
 import { UUID } from './uuidObject';
 
 // Each teamsjs instance gets a unique identifier that will be prepended to every log statement
@@ -12,7 +13,72 @@ registerLogger.formatArgs = function (args) {
   originalFormatArgsFunction.call(this, args);
 };
 
-const topLevelLogger = registerLogger('teamsJs');
+/**
+ * This function creates a customized debugger, or debugger wrapper, which wraps the debugger from `debug` npm library.
+ * The customized debugger inherits `extend` function, which is the most important one for debugging, and provides the
+ * capability to set all of attributes as `internalDebugger` does for itself. The wrapper also provides an anonymous function
+ * as `internalDebugger` does but this function will output verbose logs to console directly under certain circumstance.
+ * In the other scenarios, the debugger wrapper will behave as `internalDebugger`.
+ * @param namespace namespace of debugger
+ * @returns a debugger wrapper containning debugger created from `debug` npm library
+ */
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars
+const createDebuggerFunction = (namespace: string): Debugger => {
+  const internalDebugger: Debugger = registerLogger(namespace);
+
+  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+  const func = function (formatter: any, ...args: any[]): void {
+    if (GlobalVars.turnOnConsoleLog && localStorage.getItem('debug') != 'teamsJs.*') {
+      console.timeLog(
+        `%c${internalDebugger.namespace}%c: ${formatter}`,
+        `color: ${internalDebugger.color};`,
+        '',
+        [...args],
+        internalDebugger.color,
+      );
+    } else {
+      internalDebugger(formatter, args);
+    }
+  } as Debugger;
+
+  Object.assign(func, {
+    get color() {
+      return internalDebugger.color;
+    },
+    set color(value: string) {
+      internalDebugger.color = value;
+    },
+    get diff() {
+      return internalDebugger.diff;
+    },
+    set diff(value: number) {
+      internalDebugger.diff = value;
+    },
+    get enabled(): boolean {
+      return internalDebugger.enabled;
+    },
+    set enabled(enabled: boolean) {
+      internalDebugger.enabled = enabled;
+    },
+    get namespace(): string {
+      return internalDebugger.namespace;
+    },
+    set namespace(namespace: string) {
+      internalDebugger.namespace = namespace;
+    },
+    extend(namespace: string, delimiter?: string): Debugger {
+      return createDebuggerFunction(internalDebugger.extend(namespace, delimiter).namespace);
+    },
+    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+    log(...args: any[]) {
+      internalDebugger.log(args);
+    },
+  });
+
+  return func;
+};
+
+const topLevelLogger: Debugger = createDebuggerFunction('teamsJs');
 
 /**
  * @internal

packages/teams-js/src/public/index.ts

@@ -120,3 +120,4 @@ export { settings } from './settings';
 export { tasks } from './tasks';
 export { liveShare, LiveShareHost } from './liveShareHost';
 export { marketplace } from './marketplace';
+export { logger } from './logger';

packages/teams-js/src/public/logger.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import { GlobalVars } from '../internal/globalVars';
+
+export namespace logger {
+  /**
+   * Turn on client logging to display all of debug logs on browser console
+   */
+  export function turnOnConsoleLog(): void {
+    GlobalVars.turnOnConsoleLog = true;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Turn off client logging so that all of debug logs will not be displayed on browser console
+   */
+  export function turnOffConsoleLog(): void {
+    GlobalVars.turnOnConsoleLog = false;
+  }
+}