Suppress REST Logging Calls from Supertest

Question

I have started using MEAN stack and currently writing REST unit tests using Super Test

I want to have a little bit more clarity in my log file so that I can easily see my successful and failed tests.

I wish to suppress the console output for the actual rest API call which I think are coming out of SuperTest.

This image shows the logs I want to suppress.

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '16 at 13:00

I think it's actually coming from expressjs/morgan. I've gotten around it by setting the env to test and disabling morgan for the test env.

In my test files:

process.env.NODE_ENV = 'test';

In app.js:

if(app.get('env') !== 'test') app.use(logger('dev'));

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 16 '19 at 06:05

You can setup morgan to accept a skip function.

Then, you can, say, toggle an env variable on/off - or define skipping logic of your own to temporarily mute the logging.

app.use(
  logger('dev', {
    skip: function(req, res) {
      return process.env.MUTE_LOGGER === 'on';
    },
  }),
);

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