visitas.js

Simple Node.js dashboard for clf logs analysis, with logging capabilities.

Demo images

!Visitas demo 1
!Visitas demo 2
!Visitas demo 3

Requirements

- Node
- npm
- A Mongo connection

Installation

Simply install visitas via npm:

``
npm install --save visitas
`

And then edit the file app.js, registering visitas before any route:

`
var visitas = require('visitas');
app.use(visitas( {MONGO CONNECTION}, {OPTIONS} ));
`

Configuration

Mongo connection properties:
- host (required)
- port (required)
- db (required)
- user
- password

Options:
- log (boolean/object): visitas can also store the logs for the application. This property accepts false if no logging behaviour is required, or an object of options:
- filename (string): Filename prefix for the logs [default access]
- rotation (boolean): Use daily rotation [default false]
- directory (string): Directory for the logs [default node_moduls\visitas\log]
- dashboard (boolean/string): Dashboard endpoint [default /visitas/]

Simple test

First, init the template project and install visitas

`
express visitas-test
cd visitas-test && npm install
npm install --save visitas
`

... and edit the file app.js registering visitas, before any route is registered:

`
var visitas = require('visitas');
app.use(visitas({
host: 'localhost',
port: 27017,
db: 'visitas'
}));
`

Generate some logs:

`
node node_modules/visitas/generate-logs.js
`

The script also admits parameters:

`
node path/to/generate-logs.js [number of logs, default 1000] [directory, default visitas/log]
`

Finally, start the application...

`
npm start
`

And browse to http://127.0.0.1:3000/visitas`