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24 alternatives to I've made an easy to extend and flexible JavaScript logger
hi! I've made a logger for JS/TS. It's easily extendable, easy to use and configure. Would like to hear a feedback from you!
This is a JavaScript and TypeScript logger designed for developers who need flexible logging functionality. The tool prioritizes extensibility and ease of configuration, allowing users to customize it for their… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hello HN! I'm the creator and solo developer of Extension.js, a development tool for browser extensions with built-in support for TypeScript, WebAssembly, React, and modern JavaScript. Developers use it to spend less time configuring the compilation config or learning new frameworks and more time actually writing code. Most projects similar to Extension.js rely on some sort of abstraction or configuration to get started, making the initial development process slow given the extra learning curve and setup guidelines. By using Extension.js, adding the package to your npm scripts is all it…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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tty-logger▲75A readable, structured and beautiful logging in the terminal
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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RedwoodJS▲203Hey everyone, I'm the original co-creator of RedwoodJS. (The framework that myself and Tom Preston-Werner, Rob Cameron and David Price built during Covid.) I had tried to build a developer tool startup (Snaplet), and failed. I rejoined the efforts to add RSC to Redwood, but I realized that we needed a much simpler framework that was closely tied to a platform (We chose Cloudflare). We started building RedwoodSDK a year ago and this is the result. An insanely simple stack. I am incredibly proud of this work, please star our repo and let me know if there's anything that doesn't resonate with…
2022 · rwsdk.com · its alternatives →
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As a longtime TypeScript/Node.js developer, I've often faced challenges with logging—choosing, using, and maintaining the right logger for various projects. While most loggers offer the usual methods like "info", "warn", and "error", they vary significantly in how they handle structured metadata or Error objects. This can lead to ad-hoc solutions, like serializing errors or writing custom pipelines, just to get logs formatted correctly. I built LogLayer to address these pain points by introducing a fluid, expressive API. With methods like "withMetadata" and "withError", LogLayer…
2025 · loglayer.dev · its alternatives →
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Hello I'm Jack, I was previously a Site Reliability Engineer and i've been working on monitro.dev which makes log monitoring simple for individuals or small teams. It allows you to easily forward any logs to multiple channels such as Slack, Discord & Telegram. The events are also viewable though the admin dashboard and are easily filterable. Currently there is only an NPM package with javascript / typescript support but i have plans to expand this to other languages such as Python, Rust etc. The package has many options, one of them is forwarding any uncaught exception and as an event…
2024 · monitro.dev · its alternatives →
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I first shared Caravan on HN in 2024[0]. At the time, I had built the initial version over the Christmas holidays. You guys seemed to enjoy it. Today, I’ve released another major update after spending the last couple of weeks working on it. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42508130
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This has been in use on our production systems for around two years now at Switchboard (https://switchboard.app). The problem we had was that we were using two different logging libs for our frontend and backend at the time (specifically roarr, and bunyan), and the API for the logging libs were not compatible with each other. Loglayer was designed to wrap around popular JS logging libraries where you can swap out any underlying library without re-writing your log entries to adapt to the new library. One common example is using plain "console" as a starting integration, but later…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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faster.js is a Babel plugin that compiles idiomatic Javascript to faster, micro-optimized Javascript. - vzhou842/faster.js
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I built Timberlogs because I was tired of console.log in production and existing logging solutions requiring too much setup. Timberlogs is a drop-in structured logging library for TypeScript: npm install timberlogs-client import { createTimberlogs } from "timberlogs-client"; const timber = createTimberlogs({ source: "my-app", environment: "production", apiKey: process.env.TIMBER_API_KEY, }); timber.info("User signed in", { userId: "123" }); timber.error("Payment failed", error); Features: - Auto-batching with retries - Automatic redaction of sensitive data (passwords, tokens) -…
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Hi HN! I'm building a JavaScript debugger called Wirebrowser. It combines network inspection, request rewriting, heap snapshots, and live object search. The main experimental feature is BDHS (Breakpoint-Driven Heap Search): it hooks into the JavaScript debugger and automatically captures a heap snapshot at every pause and performs a targeted search for the value or structure of interest. This reveals the moment a value appears in memory and the user-land function responsible for creating it. Another interesting feature is the Live Object Search: it inspects runtime objects (not just…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm Damien, the solo founder of Recompyle. Self-funded. As a JavaScript developer, I have been annoyed by the console.log not being practical enough, and the debugger being 'too slow'. So I made Recompyle to fix that. It's kind of a mix of the console and the debugger. Plus, some file parsing to automatically log the start of the functions of the files you are working on.
2023 · recompyle.com · its alternatives →
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Connect to remote browser sessions and debug your JavaScript applications.
2019 · remotejs.com · its alternatives →
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See errors, warnings, and logs as they happen on your site — without having to open the browser’s console. Find bugs you didn
2020 · toastlog.com · its alternatives →
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Took a stab at building my own string diffing JS package. I built an interactive demo for TypeIt’s website (https://typeitjs.com/build-your-own) a while back. The approach I took to handle user input necessitated a way to calculate the difference between the versions of a user’s text input. I searched around for a package to help me out and found a couple of good ones (like fast-diff), but I either didn’t really like their API or didn’t want to take on a huge new dependency. Instead, I thought I’d give it a shot myself (famous last words). I dove into it having no real formal…
2022 · its alternatives →
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For the past few months we’ve been building a simple jest/typescript-based high-level language for writing and running integration tests. We're open-sourcing it now and are excited to share it with you: https://github.com/traceloop/jest-opentelemetry Why we built this: - There are many solid frameworks for FE / browser testing, but none with high-level constructs for testing BE flows - We were missing a way to validate side effects for complex backend systems, especially across async queueing systems Our beta version lets you send an API call to a system and…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Transform JSON strings or plain objects into JS class instances. - dipscope/TypeManager.TS
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Spent a week in the break building a pre-compiler that brings type safety to runtime. Still pretty early, but generally does what it says. Looking for feedback, code that breaks it (check out the playground), ideas etc.
Jan 2026 · typical.elliots.dev · its alternatives →
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A simple browser console logger to debug PHP Applications.
2020 · akshaykhale1992.github.io · its alternatives →
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Loghunts▲4Simple, categorized technical logging for everyone.
Feb 2026 · loghunts.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · howjs.com · its alternatives →
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Logforth is a flexible logging framework for Rust applications, providing easy log dispatching and configuration.
2024 · docs.rs · its alternatives →
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