# Introduction

# Why is this named Adze?

A drawing of a man using an adze to shape a log

Photo from Wikipedia (opens new window)

Adze - a cutting tool that ... is used chiefly for shaping wood (opens new window).

Adze was chosen as a name for this library to maintain solidarity with the logging puns and to emphasize that this library is a tool for shaping the logs of your application.

# Adze Demo

# Why should I use Adze?

As you may already be aware there are a number of other good JS libraries out there to assist with logging. The focus of Adze is to provide a convenient and clean API, provide first-class TypeScript support, and to empower you to take command of your logs rather than pigeon-hole you into a specific way of handling them.

Here is a list of the features that Adze provides:

First-class TypeScript support
Multi-environment support for the Browser and Node
Wraps and extends the entire standard API
A fluent, chainable API
Log Listeners for capturing log data
Log annotation namespaces, labels, and other meta data
Attractive styling (EMOJI'S INCLUDED and consistent across major browsers)
Everything is configurable
Enables completely custom log levels
A global log store for recalling logs and overriding configuration (supports micro-frontends and modules)
Support for Mapped Diagnostic Context
Convenient unit testing environment controls
Advanced Log Filtering
and much more...

Beyond the new features that Adze provides you, it also wraps the entire console web standard. Read more about the standard here: MDN Console Docs (opens new window)

# Here is a simple preview

Preview of Adze logs

This preview was generated from the same code executed in both the browser (left) and the node (right) environments.

# What does the API look like?

As stated above, Adze offers an easy to use, chainable API. To create a log you simply chain together an Adze log instance with a series of modifiers and then end with a terminator. Here's an example of creating a log with emoji's and a namespace:

import adze, { createShed } from 'adze';

// Create our global log in-memory cache
const shed = createShed();

// Listen to logs that are generated and operate on them
shed.addListener('*', (data, render, printed) => {
  // if my log printed to the console
  if (printed) {
    // do stuff with my log data like sending to an API or localStorage
  }
});

adze({ useEmoji: true }).ns('tix-456').log('Example log');

The output of this would look like the following:

Preview of Adze logs

Installing Adze →