Debug shows different timestamp formats across package and project

[imjamesb]

Debug shows different timestamp formats for body-parser, express and my project.

[imjamesb]

I also attempted to use the override feature, did not work though.

[Qix-]

Mrh yeah sorry about that. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to fix this problem. Unfortunately it's not straightforward or obvious to solve. #556 was (is) supposed to address this issue, but with the advent of module loaders and losing access to the import cache, things have gotten more complicated.

[imjamesb]

Ah I see, so if I understand correctly, this is Express' doing?

[imjamesb]

For some reason, when degrading to 2.6.9 (the same version express depends on) my logs use the GMT format, and express' logs uses the ISO format.

Weird..

[Qix-]

What does npm ls debug show?

[imjamesb]

[Qix-]

Not sure that ^ is allowed in overrides. Maybe start with just

{
    "overrides": {
        "debug@2.6.9": {
            "debug": "4.3.3"
        }
    }
}

Does that work?

[imjamesb]

[Qix-]

No idea then :/ Which order are you importing debug? Do you first import it before or after express? If after, try importing it before anything else.

[Qix-]

Actually looking at your npm ls output it doesn't appear the override is working. Are you using package-lock.json files per chance?

Try deleting it (I have them turned off by default, typically - they add no value) then re-installing.

[imjamesb]

Yes, I'll delete the lockfile and try again ;)

[imjamesb]

Okay, so for some reason my own debugs no longer work - but express' do

[Qix-]

By "not work" do you mean just no output? Or is there an error?

Try blowing away both node_modules and any lockfiles and re-installing from scratch, then.

[imjamesb]

Got them back

It didn't output, even though DEBUG was set to *, it was because dotenv was loaded after debug I think

[imjamesb]

The override still doesn't work

[imjamesb]

  "overrides": {
    "express": {
      "debug": "4.3.3"
    },
    "nodemon": {
      "debug": "4.3.3"
    },
    "apollo-server-express": {
      "body-parser": {
        "debug": "4.3.3"
      }
    }
  }

Turns out this was the way to go, it works using this. Probably time to do a couple of version bump PRs

[Qix-]

Oh right, that makes sense 🙃 sorry I didn't catch it the first time haha.

Yeah seems right! Feel free to ping me on any you may open.

Going to go ahead and close this now. Let me know if there's anything else.

[imjamesb]

Awesome, thanks for your help, awesome library!