A highly opioninated logger implementation for Microsoft.Extensions.Logging that uses Spectre.Console to write to the console.

Once you've installed both Spectre.Console and this package, just add the SpectreConsoleLogger using the normal Add extension methods. If you're creating loggers manually:

using (var factory = LoggerFactory.Create(b => b.AddSpectreConsole())) {
    _logger = factory.CreateLogger("SampleCategory");
}

Or if you're using dependency injection:

//in your startup code
services.AddLogging(builder => builder.AddSpectreConsole());

//in your classes
public MyClass(ILogger<MyClass> logger) {
    _logger = logger;
}

Since we're using Spectre.Console underneath, that means you can also include markup in your log messages and they will be rendered on the console:

_logger.LogWarning($"No files found at [italic red]{path}[/]!. Continuing with [underline]default files only.[/]");

Obviously your other logging providers may not support this markup!

There's also an alternative logger implementation that sacrifices some detail for a terser, more human-readable output: SpectreInlineLogger. You can use this version by changing the call to AddSpectreConsole() to AddInlineSpectreConsole(). This (highly opinionated!) implementation is intended less as an application logging facility and more as a console log/host for command-line apps.

There's also some configuration options available from the SpectreConsoleLoggerConfiguration class. You can optionally pass an instance of the configuration, or a configuration action, in the call to AddSpectreConsole().

To see Spectre.Console in action, install the dotnet-example global tool.

> dotnet tool install -g dotnet-example

Now you can list available examples in this repository:

> dotnet example

┌─────────┬────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Name    │ Path                           │ Description                                                  │
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Default │ samples/Default/Default.csproj │ Demonstrates the default output of the SpectreConsoleLogger. │
│ Inline  │ samples/Inline/Inline.csproj   │ Demonstrates the terser output of the SpectreInlineLogger.   │
└─────────┴────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

And to run an example:

> dotnet example default
info: SampleCategory[0]
      Sample application starting up...
trce: SampleCategory[1234]
      Use a familiar format for logging messages
...