Learning Node.js Development

Creating a logger

Inside app.use, we're going to get started by creating a logger that will log out all of the requests that come in to the server. We'll store a timestamp so we can see exactly when someone made a request for a specific URL.

To get started inside the middleware, let's get the current time. I'll make a variable called now, setting it equal to newDate, creating a new instance of our date object, and I'll call it toString method:

app.use((req, res, next) => { var now = new Date().toString(); next();});

The toString method creates a nice formatted date, a human-readable timestamp. Now that we have our now variable in place, we can start creating the actual logger by calling console.log.

Let's call console.log, passing in whatever ...