From bee6938a673d3fd1690a546a755cb2039cf76829 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Wolf <mw@philologue.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2026 20:18:37 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add some logging related stubs to express backend

---
 express/cli.ts     | 6 ++++++
 express/logging.ts | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/express/cli.ts b/express/cli.ts
index 7f1c121..e161360 100644
--- a/express/cli.ts
+++ b/express/cli.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ const { values } = parseArgs({
             type: "string",
             short: "l",
         },
+        "log-address": {
+            type: "string",
+            default: "8085",
+        },
     },
     strict: true,
     allowPositionals: false,
@@ -43,7 +47,9 @@ function parseListenAddress(listen: string | undefined): {
 }
 
 const listenAddress = parseListenAddress(values.listen);
+const logAddress = parseListenAddress(values["log-address"]);
 
 export const cli = {
     listen: listenAddress,
+    logAddress,
 };
diff --git a/express/logging.ts b/express/logging.ts
index d95ecac..bf76846 100644
--- a/express/logging.ts
+++ b/express/logging.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 // internal-logging.ts
 
+import { cli } from "./cli";
+
 // FIXME: Move this to somewhere more appropriate
 type AtLeastOne<T> = [T, ...T[]];
 
@@ -32,6 +34,9 @@ type FilterArgument = {
 
 const log = (_message: Message) => {
     // WRITEME
+    console.log(
+        `will POST a message to ${cli.logAddress.host}:${cli.logAddress.port}`,
+    );
 };
 
 const getLogs = (filter: FilterArgument) => {