Console logging is not colorized.

I’m trying to colorize the console output and it’s not working. The output is all the same (white) color. I’m on 3.0.0-rc1.

const winston = require('winston');
const logLevels = {
  levels: {
    error: 0,
    warn: 1,
    info: 2,
    http: 3,
    sql: 4,
    debug: 5
  },
  colors: {
    error: "red",
    warn: "darkred",
    info: "black",
    http: "green",
    sql: "blue",
    debug: "gray"
  }
};
winston.addColors(logLevels);
const logger = winston.createLogger({...});
logger.add(new winston.transports.Console({colorize: true}));

I also tried the suggestion here but that’s not working either:

logger.add(new winston.transports.Console({format: winston.format.combine(formatter, winston.format.colorize())}));

Thanks, Alvaro

[Xeoncross]

I was able to get it partially working using the documentation for logform.

  const alignedWithColorsAndTime = winston.format.combine(
    winston.format.colorize(),
    winston.format.timestamp(),
    winston.format.align(),
    winston.format.printf(info => `${info.timestamp} [${info.level}]: ${info.message}`),
  );

Not sure how to handle dumping the JSON arguments.

Update here is what I worked out:

  const alignedWithColorsAndTime = winston.format.combine(
    winston.format.colorize(),
    winston.format.timestamp(),
    winston.format.align(),
    winston.format.printf((info) => {
      const {
        timestamp, level, message, ...args
      } = info;

      const ts = timestamp.slice(0, 19).replace('T', ' ');
      return `${ts} [${level}]: ${message} ${Object.keys(args).length ? JSON.stringify(args, null, 2) : ''}`;
    }),
  );

[abrakadobr]

started winston and also got console without colors… i was using next transport defining code:

new winston.transports.Console({
  format: winston.format.simple()
})

after reading this thread i did like this:

new winston.transports.Console({
  format: winston.format.combine(
            winston.format.simple(),
            winston.format.colorize()
          )
})

and got no difference. so i changed position of colorize format to 1st and got colors working

new winston.transports.Console({
  format: winston.format.combine(
            winston.format.colorize(),
            winston.format.simple()
          )
})