Logging with winston

config/log.js

@@ -1,29 +1,71 @@
 console.log('Loading... ', __filename);
-
+var winston = require('winston');
 /**
- * Logger configuration
- *
- * Configure the log level for your app, as well as the transport
- * (Underneath the covers, Sails uses Winston for logging, which
- * allows for some pretty neat custom transports/adapters for log messages)
- *
- * For more information on the Sails logger, check out:
- * http://sailsjs.org/#documentation
- */
+* Logger configuration
+*
+* Configure the log level for your app, as well as the transport
+* (Underneath the covers, Sails uses Winston for logging, which
+* allows for some pretty neat custom transports/adapters for log messages)
+*
+* For more information on the Sails logger, check out:
+* http://sailsjs.org/#documentation
+*/
+/*
+Winston log levels are flipped from sails log levels, so using the log_level array makes it behave as expected in the sails documentation
+*/
+
+var log_levels = {
+  silent: 6,
+  error: 5,
+  warn: 4,
+  debug: 3,
+  info: 2,
+  verbose: 1,
+  silly: 0
+};
 
-module.exports = {
+var transports = [
+    new (winston.transports.File)(
+      /*This Transport controls what is written to the log file*/
+      {
+        level: 'verbose',
+        name: 'written.log',
+        silent: false,
+        colorize: false,
+        timestamp: true,
+        filename: "application.log",
+        maxsize: 500000,
+        maxFiles: 5,
+        json: false,
+        handleExceptions: false
+      }
+    ),
+    new (winston.transports.Console)(
+      /*This Transport is required to get console output, regardless of sails log level
+      *  output will be the lesser of sails log level and the transport level if they aren't equal
+      *  accordingly, transport log level shoul always be equal or lower than sails log level for readability's sake
+      */
+      {
+        level: 'silly',
+        name: 'console.log',
+        silent: false,
+        colorize: true,
+        timestamp: true,
+        json: false,
+        handleExceptions: false
+      }
+    )
+  ];
 
-  // Valid `level` configs:
-  // i.e. the minimum log level to capture with sails.log.*()
-  //
-  // 'error'	: Display calls to `.error()`
-  // 'warn'	: Display calls from `.error()` to `.warn()`
-  // 'debug'	: Display calls from `.error()`, `.warn()` to `.debug()`
-  // 'info'	: Display calls from `.error()`, `.warn()`, `.debug()` to `.info()`
-  // 'verbose': Display calls from `.error()`, `.warn()`, `.debug()`, `.info()` to `.verbose()`
-  //
-  log: {
-    level: 'info'
-  }
+var logger = new (winston.Logger)({
+  exitOnError: false,
+  transports: transports,
+  levels: log_levels
+});
 
-};
+/* Don't forget to set the sails logging level to  a higher or equal level to what you want in the logs */
+module.exports.log = {
+  level: 'silly',
+  colors: false, // To get clean logs without prefixes or color codings
+  custom: logger
+};

package.json

@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@
     "timepicker": "jonthornton/jquery-timepicker#1.2.15",
     "uglifyify": "^3.0.1",
     "underscore": "^1.8.2",
-    "validator": "3.4.0"
+    "validator": "3.4.0",
+    "winston": "^0.9.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "casper-chai": "^0.2.1",