I recently added a logging provider to my open source project (WilderBlog). I know I shouldn’t have implemented a provider myself, but I wanted to see how the sausage was made.
The reality is that I should have used an existing library like Serilog or others, but digging into the logging framework taught be how the system works. I’m hoping to show you what I learned.
Before we get started with what I did, let’s talk about how logging works. In Startup.cs you can ask for the ILoggerFactory object which you can use to support different types of logs. For instance, here is the DebugLogger being added when we’re running under development...
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