Re_Backend/CONSOLE_LOGS_CLEANED.md

Console Logs Cleanup Summary

Changes Applied

All verbose, redundant, and confusing console logs have been removed or simplified to keep only essential one-line messages helpful for bug tracking.

What Was Kept ✅

Server Startup:

• 🚀 Server running on port ${PORT} | ${environment} - Single line server status

Critical Errors:

• ❌ Database connection failed
• ❌ Unable to start server
• ❌ SSO Callback failed
• ❌ Get Users failed
• ❌ Authorization check failed
• ❌ Admin authorization failed
• ❌ Migration failed
• ❌ Configuration seeding error
• ❌ TAT Error loading working hours/holidays

Migration Status:

• ✅ Migrations up-to-date
• 🔄 Running ${count} migration(s)...
• ✅ ${migration-name} - Per migration success
• ✅ Applied ${count} migration(s) - Final summary

Graceful Shutdown:

• 🛑 SIGTERM signal received: closing HTTP server
• 🛑 SIGINT signal received: closing HTTP server

What Was Removed ❌

Multi-line Configuration Dumps

• TAT Configuration details (working hours, thresholds, test mode)
• System Configuration details (environment, version, features)
• Working hours cache loaded messages

Verbose Development Logs

• Database connection established
• Database models synchronized
• Socket.IO server initialized
• Socket.IO client connected with socket.id
• Auth routes loaded
• Holiday calendar loaded

Migration Details

• Individual table created messages
• Individual column added messages
• Index created messages
• Conversion progress messages

Database Query Logging

• Disabled SQL query logging in database.ts - previously showed ALL database queries in development mode

File Changes

Core Files

1. src/server.ts - Simplified to single line startup message
2. src/app.ts - Removed database connection messages, kept only errors
3. src/config/tat.config.ts - Disabled multi-line TAT config logging
4. src/config/system.config.ts - Disabled multi-line system config logging
5. src/config/database.ts - Disabled SQL query logging (was showing every SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE)
6. src/realtime/socket.ts - Removed Socket.IO initialization and connection logs
7. src/utils/tatTimeUtils.ts - Removed verbose cache loading messages, kept errors
8. src/routes/auth.routes.ts - Removed route loading message
9. src/middlewares/authorization.middleware.ts - Improved error messages

Migration Files (All)

• 2025103000-create-users.ts
• 2025110501-alter-tat-days-to-generated.ts
• 20251105-add-skip-fields-to-approval-levels.ts
• 20251104-create-admin-config.ts
• 20251104-create-holidays.ts
• 20251104-create-kpi-views.ts

All replaced verbose console logs with inline comments.

Scripts

• src/scripts/migrate.ts - Streamlined migration output
• src/scripts/seed-admin-config.ts - Simplified seed messages

New Clean Console Output

Development Server Start

🚀 Server running on port 5000 | development

Running Migrations

🔄 Running 2 migration(s)...
✅ 2025103000-create-users
✅ 2025110501-alter-tat-days-to-generated
✅ Applied 2 migration(s)

No More Clutter

• ❌ No SQL query logs
• ❌ No multi-line config dumps
• ❌ No verbose socket connection messages
• ❌ No redundant "table created" messages

Benefits

1. Cleaner Logs - Easy to scan for errors and important events
2. Better Performance - No overhead from logging every SQL query
3. Easier Debugging - Critical errors stand out with ❌ emoji
4. Production Ready - Minimal logging suitable for production environments

To Enable Debug Logging (If Needed)

To temporarily enable SQL query logging for debugging:

// In Re_Backend/src/config/database.ts
logging: console.log  // Change from false

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Summary: Reduced ~100+ console log statements to ~20 essential one-liners for bug tracking.