Feature req: allow use in front end in browser

[garyo]

I know this is "nodejs-logging-winston" but it would be great if there were a way to send front-end logs, especially via Winston, to Stackdriver.

[losalex]

Thanks @garyo for opening the PR! Can you please elaborate a bit more regarding sending front end logs to Stackdriver? For example, which application/framework you use, where your app is running (e.g. browser?), is your app has backend servers?

[garyo]

In my case I'm using Vue/Vuetify and Google Firebase. App (app.bioviz-studio.com, check it out) is running in the browser, and has Google Cloud backend servers. It would be great to capture front-end logs (warnings, errors, significant events, etc.) into Google's stackdriver.

[losalex]

Thanks @garyo for clarifications and sorry for late response! I believe that it would be great to see nodejs-logging-winston running on client side fully integrated with Google Cloud Logging backend, but unfortunately as of now we do not have plans to support it. I also did some fast checks and I must admit it is not clear if winston library supported fully to run in browser - there is a thread mentioned here, but it is not clear if solutions mentioned work. As for browser side logging, we have the experimental library stackdriver-errors-js which provides an ability to integrate directly with Google Cloud Error Reporting, so it could be used at least to report errors. I am not sure how far you went with your research, but I wonder if you were able to try to run winston in browser as suggested in #287? Since if that is possible, perhaps you could use winston library with a custom transport which could expose error reporting abilities by utilizing stackdriver-errors-js at least. Please let me know what do you think about it or if there is anything else I can help with.