winston VS Bunyan

Compare winston vs Bunyan and see what are their differences.

winston

A logger for just about everything. (by winstonjs)

Bunyan

a simple and fast JSON logging module for node.js services (by trentm)
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winston Bunyan
51 12
21,921 7,124
1.0% -
7.9 0.0
3 days ago 6 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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winston

Posts with mentions or reviews of winston. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-01.

Bunyan

Posts with mentions or reviews of Bunyan. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-22.
  • Structured Logging with Slog
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Aug 2023
  • Logging in your API
    13 projects | dev.to | 22 Feb 2023
    NodeJS -> Pino, Winston, Bunyan, Npmlog, e.t.c.
  • 7 Best Node.js Logging Libraries for Your Next Projects
    6 projects | dev.to | 13 Dec 2022
    Bunyan is also another popular and fast JSON Node.js logging library. Just like Winston, it also supports logging into multiple transport options. Other features include a neat-printing CLI for logs, a log filter, serializers for rendering objects, snooping system, and the ability to support multiple runtime environments such as NW.js and WebPack. Bunyan enforces the JSON format for logs.
  • Node.js: How to Power Up Your Logging
    3 projects | dev.to | 1 May 2022
    bunyan argues that logs should be structured and that JSON is a good format for that. It describes itself as a “simple and fast JSON logging library” and has all the features you would expect from a logging library, including serializers and support for different runtime environments including Node.js, Browserify and Webpack.
  • Understanding the dependency inversion principle in TypeScript
    2 projects | dev.to | 21 Mar 2022
    Suppose that after some time you decide that the winston logger library was not the best logger for your project and you want to use Bunyan, what do you do? You just need to create a BunyanLogger class that implements the ILogger interface and it is ready to be used by the UserService.
  • Patterns and Anti-patterns in Node.js
    12 projects | dev.to | 15 Mar 2022
    Bunyan: Another popular logging library that outputs in JSON by default.
  • Top 15 libraries you should use for every Node Express backend project.
    3 projects | dev.to | 13 Mar 2022
    bunyan
  • Designing Error Messages and a Logging Strategy in Node.js
    3 projects | dev.to | 30 Nov 2021
    Are there more options? Absolutely: Bunyan, Pino, and others. It depends on what your particular logging needs are.
  • Open Sourcing URL Shortener
    5 projects | dev.to | 2 Oct 2021
    With the increasing number of requests and possibly errors, we needed a proper logging setup to debug and monitor the service. That’s why we chose bunyan to log insightful data in our application. These logs sit conveniently on our new logging pipeline running on EFK (or, Elasticsearch Fluentd Kibana) stack. While this deserves a separate blog post on its own, let’s take a brief look at how the logs travel from our application to the kibana dashboard.
  • Best Practices for Logging in Node.js
    5 projects | dev.to | 8 Sep 2021
    Bunyan — Another feature-rich logging framework that outputs in JSON by default and provides a CLI tool for viewing your logs.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing winston and Bunyan you can also consider the following projects:

pino - 🌲 super fast, all natural json logger

log4js-node - A port of log4js to node.js

tracer for node.js - A powerful and customizable logging library for node.js

console-log-level - The most simple logger imaginable

signale - Highly configurable logging utility

loglevel - :ledger: Minimal lightweight logging for JavaScript, adding reliable log level methods to wrap any available console.log methods

morgan - HTTP request logger middleware for node.js

fluent-bit - Fast and Lightweight Logs and Metrics processor for Linux, BSD, OSX and Windows

consola - 🐨 Elegant Console Logger for Node.js and Browser

intel - I need more intel!