Standard/recommended logger for VS Code extension?

[mshr-h]

Hi there,
First of all, thanks for developing such a great product!

I've been developing a VS Code extension called mshr-h/vscode-verilog-hdl-support since 2015.

In the extension, I implemented a logging class which outputs log messages to vscode.OutputChannel.
It's working without any problem. Since the extension gets new features from time to time, I need a better logger.

So I looked at the logger implementation of microsoft/vscode-python and microsoft/vscode-cpptools. They both have their own logger implementations.

• microsoft/vscode-python: 322 LoC w/o comments, 6 files implementation
• microsoft/vscode-cpptools: 141 LoC w/o comments, single file implementation

And I also googled "logging vscode extension" and found the @vscode-logging/logger library. But it looks like not maintained actively.

My questions are

• Is there any standard/recommended logger library for the VS Code extension?
• Or do you have any plan to provide it?

Thanks.

[mshr-h]

I think I found the answer myself.
In VS Code 1.74, there's a Log output channel API which is what I wanted.

[James4Ever0]

What I really want is the ability to track down to the source in the logger. Would you explain how to do that with LogOutputChannel?

fullstack-build/tslog#205 (comment)

[mshr-h]

I don't know how to implement that because my extension doesn't need it.