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How to do it...

Let's follow the steps below to add custom Morgan logging to our Express web server:

1. First, we'll simply change our default Morgan logger configuration to use the short predefined logging style. We do that by simply changing the string value provided to our logger instance:

...var logger = require('morgan');...app.use(logger('short'));...

2. After restarting our server, we will note that our log messages now have a new format in our console when we visit pages of our application.
3. Next, let's add some custom logging to our /middleware/auth.js middleware. We will create a new logger method, in that it will configure a custom log token and return a custom log format. This logger will record the admin's role and session ID as ...