help - how to enter app name

node v8.11.4 oSX 10.13.5 Express 4.14.1

I’m having general problems. I can get debug to work using this only: DEBUG=* node ./bin/www. But then I see all the output for all express processes. It will not accept my app name, which appears to here process.env.npm_package_name.

I enter it like this DEBUG=appName node ./bin/www

This is true- if(debug.enabled){ console.log('true') }

Logging the functions back works; they are not undefined.

In my app.js I’ve included this.

const log = debug('app:log')
const error = debug('app:error')
log.log = console.log.bind(console); 
log('hello')
error('error')

When I used DEBUG=* the error and log are both green, rather than one being red and one being green.

Sorry to post a help request here. If it’s out of line I can move it to SO. I found some good stuff here, but none of it seemed to work for me https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26112075/express-debug-module-not-working

[Qix-]

Yeah, sorry about that, that post is wrong. 😃 When in doubt, check the readme 💃

[Qix-]

Right - you put in DEBUG=foo:bar - whatever you pass to debug() you must also put in the DEBUG variable. We don’t look at package.json at all.