if the logs directory doesn't exist, it will throw ex instead of create directory

var transports = [];
transports.push(new winston.transports.DailyRotateFile({
  name: 'file',
  datePattern: '.yyyy-MM-ddTHH',
  filename: path.join(__dirname, "logs", "log_file.log")
}));

var logger = new winston.Logger({transports: transports});

logger.info("current scheduled_mt_task count");

If the subdirectory /logs doesn’t exist, it will throw exception like can't open file logs/log_file.log20150213XXX ,

I think winston should automatic create the sub directory instead of asking users to manually create it.

[PierLucGagnon]

I vote for an option for this. By default the log directory shouldn’t be created, but with an option like createDirectory set to true, it would be really convenient if Winston created said directory.

[KirillGrishin]

@indexzero But why? When you say something like “I think”, you need to provide reasoning for this, no? My reason to have this option is because usually logs directory is not under version control, and will not be created when cloning a repo - boom you have an error when trying to run it. I am not even talking about automatically deployed environments.