winston.transports.File fails to log when filename option is in home directory

When the filename for a File transport is in the home directory, and the path starts with a tilde, no log file is created anywhere and no error is thrown.

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// winston.version === '2.2.0'
var logger = new winston.Logger()
logger.add(winston.transports.File, { filename: '~/.my.log', level : 'verbose' })
logger.verbose('I\'m not logging')

Just as the fs module throws when the tilde is used in paths I would expect winston to throw as well. I can’t find any way to catch the error using handleExceptions but I’m new to using winston.

The File transport’s stream emits a ENOENT error because the dirname “~” doesn’t exist but I prefer to do,

if(this.dirname === '~')
  this.dirname = process.env.HOME

I would just expect something thrown or some magic to make it work since this can be dealt with in the File transport constructor.

[matutter]

Right but it fails silently. I’m saying it should throw or there should be a configuration to make it work; throwing would probably be better than nothing.

[HugoJLFerreira]

@totopsy yes its an installed application in windows, so instead of writing the log in a subfolder of Program Files the log is written to AppData… I found a solution now though, sorry for the hijack 😃