Use a better logging library

[ds300]

I copied over this log.js file from an old project of mine, but I don't love it. It also doesn't support log levels (e.g. --verbose, --debug, etc).

Let's find something better we can build on. Doesn't matter what it is as long as it's lightweight and makes life easier.

Do an audit of any log statements in the app (console.log is used in a few places too) and replace them with the new logging system.

[igalklebanov]

Hey 👋

How about this? Haven't tried, looks like it ticks all the boxes.

[ds300]

Thanks for the suggestion! It looks good, but also looks like it's optimised for server-style logging rather than CLI-style logging?

I guess that's ok as long as it's lightweight and we can just use it for the log levels and turn off the metadata bits.

Still, I'm curious what other cli projects out there are using. npm, pnpm, yarn, etc.

[igalklebanov]

pnpm seems to be using bole according to this.

[judicaelandria]

yeah, pnpm created a custom logging with bole

[ds300]

Vite's logger looks just like what I had in mind https://github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/cdd9c2320650f34c46e02f3777239e595cf6543d/packages/vite/src/node/logger.ts

I think we could add an extra 'verbose' log level after 'info' and take it from there

[mrkldshv]

I'll take this one. Will clean it up and add one more log level when porting Vite's implementation.

[judicaelandria]

I think #18 will depend on this one since it will use the new logging library