Node.js Interactive 2015

Winston is the most popular logging library for node. Released in early 2011, it is almost old as node itself. Yet its popularity persists with over 2M monthly downloads and over 200 community contributed packages.

Over the years it has evolved as node and JavaScript have mature as platforms. Did you know that when winston was written there was no streams implementation as we know it today? And certainly no streams2 or streams3 specification. There were no good code coverage tools and mocha didn't even exist yet! But what's most want to know is how winston is better.

This talk will cover the road to winston@3.0.0 and highlight how the module ecosystem has evolved along side through hard work of a handful of dedicated core contributors, careful API design, utilizing ES6 features since node@0.12.x, and practical benchmarking and analysis.