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Winston colors don't work with docker

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If you run winston in container (in my case boot2docker OSX), colors get lost. This doesn’t happen with debug npm library e.g.

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

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tarwichcommented, May 21, 2015

…and fixed

passing --color=always to my program fixes this issue. The issue is not with Winston, but with Marak/colors.

That being said, Winston could enable the option with

var colors = require("colors");
if(somethingSaysIShouldColor)
    colors.enabled = true;

If I write a program and manually set require("colors").enabled = true, then it enables the colors for my (non-TTY) program, but not for included programs like Winston.

enabled option found here

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indexzerocommented, Nov 18, 2015

Fixed in #751. Released in winston@2.1.1

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