Logger is undefined on global inkdrop object

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#1

Hi,

Iā€™m developing a plugin and was wondering if the logger property of th global inkdrop object has moved somewhere or is not available anymore?

When i open the console in Inkdrop and try to manually access logger (inkdrop.logger) it is also undefined. So I presume it has nothing to do with my plugin setup.

Any help would be appreciated on how to log things. Thank you!

#2

Hi Manuel,

Thanks for the question.
The Inkdrop logger is available in inkdrop module, not the global inkdrop variable.
You can use it like so:

const { logger } = require('inkdrop')
logger.info('foo')

Note that it is basically for internal use. For example, logger.debug('foo') outputs nothing in the production builds.
Can you tell me why would you like to use it?

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#3

Thanks for the answer. So that module is different than the one where the store and notificiations objects e.g. are attached to?

Iā€™m working on a sync/import/export plugin for Todoist. It works quite well so far. I was just wondering where to log some information about what the plugin was doing and how to log when sync errors occured. Such as Todois API responses.

I do notify the user with notifications if something goes wrong but I guess it would be nice to have some sort of log to follow the synchornisatoin trace to be able to say what roughly failed.

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#4

Ok, I think I was a bit confused.

This is my first plugin and also my first Typescript experience since I wanted to make use of types.

Now if I create a file inkdrop.d.ts with declare module "inkdrop"; the module resolution works since it basically tells Typescript the module exists.

Is that the commonly accepted approach?

#5

Wow, that sounds cool.

Itā€™s correct that you notify the user with notifications for exceptions.
Again, the logger module of Inkdrop is basically for internal use.
Instead, you could use ā€œdebugā€ module for logging your plugin process:

It has type definitions for TypeScript, so you donā€™t have to worry about that.

Hope that helps!

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#6

Thank you, that sounds good. Iā€™ll take a look.

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#7

If youā€™re interestedā€¦

Iā€™m still doing some refactoring, better exception and error management as well as looking into the library you linked to swap out the internal logger. I will probably split parts into separate modules but feature wise itā€™s pretty much as complete as what Inkdrop and Todoist allow. The Readme is done. Iā€™ll hopefully get around to polish it soon to be able to publish a first version.

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#8

Wowwww this is so cool!
Canā€™t wait to share it with people on my Twitter when published :wink:

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#9

Hi Takuya,
Iā€™ve published a first version (todoist-sync).
I will still rework the code into multiple modules in the coming days but it wonā€™t change the functionality.

Iā€™ve been using it daily for a while now and enjoy working with it.

There is also a super small other plugin for permanently deleting notes by skipping trash I made as well (perma-delete).

Thank you for your help!

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#10

Hi Manuel!

Thanks for publishing the plugins! A plugin developer license has been applied to you XD
BTW, Iā€™ve tried to use the todoist-sync but got an error on loading:

Error: Cannot find module 'inkdrop-model'
Require stack:
- /Users/nora/Library/Application Support/inkdrop/packages/todoist-sync/lib/todoist-sync-core.js
- /Users/nora/Library/Application Support/inkdrop/packages/todoist-sync/lib/todoist-sync.js
- /Applications/Inkdrop.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/index.html

I found that the dependencies in package.json looks wrong:

  "dependencies": {
    "@doist/todoist-api-typescript": "^1.5.0",
    "@types/react": "^18.0.11"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@types/node": "^14.11.2",
    "gts": "^3.1.0",
    "inkdrop-model": "^2.7.1",
    "typescript": "^4.7.2"
  },

It should be something like:

  "dependencies": {
    "@doist/todoist-api-typescript": "^1.5.0",
    "inkdrop-model": "^2.7.1"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@types/react": "^18.0.11",
    "@types/node": "^14.11.2",
    "gts": "^3.1.0",
    "typescript": "^4.7.2"
  },
#11

Oh, Iā€™ll fix that. Mustā€™ve accidentally added it to the dev dependencies. And since I symlinked the dev version to my local Inkdrop I probably never realised.

Thanks so much for the dev license!

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#12

Alright, fixed. Installed the official version from ipm for testing and Inkdrop loads fine now. It was the same issue for both plugins. Thanks for making me aware of that!

#13

Great work, Manuel!
Iā€™ve shared it on my Twitter :smiley:

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