Audit log to console when running in dev and disabled via env var

Author: devksingh4

src/api/functions/auditLog.ts

@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ export async function createAuditLogEntry({
   dynamoClient,
   entry,
 }: AuditLogParams) {
+  if (process.env.DISABLE_AUDIT_LOG && process.env.RunEnvironment === "dev") {
+    console.log(`Audit log entry: ${JSON.stringify(entry)}`);
+    return;
+  }
   const safeDynamoClient =
     dynamoClient ||
     new DynamoDBClient({
@@ -52,8 +56,11 @@ export function buildAuditLogTransactPut({
 }: {
   entry: AuditLogEntry;
 }): TransactWriteItem {
+  if (process.env.DISABLE_AUDIT_LOG && process.env.RunEnvironment === "dev") {
+    console.log(`Audit log entry: ${JSON.stringify(entry)}`);
+    return {};
+  }
   const item = buildMarshalledAuditLogItem(entry);
-
   return {
     Put: {
       TableName: genericConfig.AuditLogTable,

src/api/package.json

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
     "build": "tsc && node build.js",
-    "dev": "cross-env LOG_LEVEL=debug concurrently --names 'esbuild,server' 'node esbuild.config.js --watch' 'cd ../../dist_devel && nodemon index.js'",
+    "dev": "cross-env DISABLE_AUDIT_LOG=true cross-env LOG_LEVEL=debug concurrently --names 'esbuild,server' 'node esbuild.config.js --watch' 'cd ../../dist_devel && nodemon index.js'",
     "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit",
     "lint": "eslint . --ext .ts --cache",
     "prettier": "prettier --check *.ts **/*.ts",