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its nextjs so nodejs

because it prints to stderr, instead you would want to log with json for the proper colours

oh i didnt know .warn goes to stderr

wdym by "log with json" though

but TIL lol

you should use a json logger which will format your logs to something like this:

{"time":"2025-03-06T23:16:18.292397+01:00","level":"INFO","msg":"Synced 4 commands"}

so i literally write console.log({"time":"2025-03-06T23:16:18.292397+01:00","level":"INFO","msg":"Synced 4 commands"}) ?

you should be able to configure the logging behavior or use an external package that does exactly that.

for example in go, you can just configure the logger to log json using the built in slog package slog.SetDefault(slog.New(slog.NewJSONHandler(os.Stdout, &slog.HandlerOptions{AddSource: true}))).

interesting

i found a package so im trying it out rn

but what exactly is json logging?

ive never heard of it until now

is it just writing a json string to stdout

> JSON logging is the recording of log entries as structured JSON objects. This approach makes log data easy to parse and analyze with various log management systems, analytics tools, and other software applications.

for example, Railway will check for the "level" key in the json and correctly display it as info, error or warn

yay it worked ty

for those who might come across this in the future: a quick no dep solution is this:

// Use JSON logging in Railway
// https://discord.com/channels/713503345364697088/1347328038886703269
const util = require("util");
if (process.env.RAILWAY_PROJECT_ID) {
  globalThis.console.warn = (...args) =>
    process.stdout.write(
      JSON.stringify({
        level: "warn",
        msg: args.map((arg) => typeof arg === "string" ? arg : util.inspect(arg)).join(" "),
      }) + "\n"
    );
}

now i have a nice sea of warnings 😌 (i should prob remove these im ngl)

interesting approach

!s