Node/Express access logger from request object

Question

I am trying to see if there is a way to access my logger form a request object. I have a cusotm winston wrapper that uses winston, express-winston, and moment to keep things clean across my apps.

In my app.js I just have

  var logger = require('winston-custom');

  server.use(logger());

Then in the controller I am trying to find a clean way to get the logger off the request object (if possible), so I do not have to import it here. My first guess was it's on the req.app, but it does not appear to be.

so In a controller for the same server I have

 function rootAPI(req, res) {
  console.log("req.app", req.app);

Which seems to not provide me with anything, I even tried logging req and digging through it. Is there any way to correctly achieve this? Thanks!

Answer 1

If you're absolutely sure you need this functionality, you can achieve it by adding a custom field on request:

server.all("*", function(req, res, next)
{
    req.logger = logger;
    next();
});

Answer 2

while the answer above is correct, we can simplify the implement by creating an express middleware:

const app = express()
const loggerMiddleware = (req, res, next) => { req.logger = logger; next()};
app.use(loggerMiddleware)

It is important that next() is called, else the next middleware wouldn't be called.

https://expressjs.com/en/guide/using-middleware.html