Why is console.log/info forwarded to stderr? Producing confusing logs.

[dewdad]

I'm using frontend-maven-plugin to run JS tests for our project and I have the following output which is very confusing.

The logging we produce in order to trace our tests' execution is all logged as [ERROR]

ava 1.0.0-beta.6
node 10.5.0
npm 6.1.0

[novemberborn]

It's to separate AVA's output from your program's output. For example with the TAP reporter we can't mix them up.

The answer might be to configure your logger to not output anything when tests are running, or to discard stderr in CI.

(I'm closing this issue for housekeeping purposes, but let's keep the conversation going.)

[dewdad]

Can't this be managed with streams? Use one stream specifically for AVAs output and pipe it at the end to stdout or a file.

[novemberborn]

That's pretty much what we do, except that all non-AVA output is written to stderr.

I wonder if, unless --verbose is set, AVA should not print any non-AVA output. Perhaps with a message at the end that output was silenced.