Merge pull request #1081 from NordicSemiconductor/push-mtvoznrkvrzs

Support using logger in launcher

Author: datenreisender

Changelog.md

@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ This project does _not_ adhere to
 [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html) but contrary to it
 every new version is a new major version.
 
+## 237.0.0 - 2025-11-12
+
+### Changed
+
+- The logger now also supports being used in the renderer process of the
+  launcher.
+
 ## 236.0.0 - 2025-11-07
 
 ### Changed

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
     "name": "@nordicsemiconductor/pc-nrfconnect-shared",
-    "version": "236.0.0",
+    "version": "237.0.0",
     "description": "Shared commodities for developing pc-nrfconnect-* packages",
     "repository": {
         "type": "git",

src/logging/index.ts

@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ import { SPLAT } from 'triple-beam';
 import { createLogger, format, LogEntry, Logger, transports } from 'winston';
 import Transport from 'winston-transport';
 
-import { getAppLogDir } from '../utils/appDirs';
+import { getAppLogDir, getUserDataDir } from '../utils/appDirs';
 import { openFile, openFileLocation } from '../utils/open';
+import { isLauncher } from '../utils/packageJson';
 import AppTransport from './appTransport';
 import describeError from './describeError';
 import createLogBuffer from './logBuffer';
@@ -27,7 +28,11 @@ const isConsoleAvailable = (() => {
 })();
 
 const filePrefix = new Date().toISOString().replace(/:/gi, '_');
-const logFilePath = () => path.join(getAppLogDir(), `${filePrefix}-log.txt`);
+
+const logFilePath = () =>
+    isLauncher()
+        ? path.join(getUserDataDir(), 'logs', 'renderer.log')
+        : path.join(getAppLogDir(), `${filePrefix}-log.txt`);
 
 const logBuffer = createLogBuffer();