diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cbe213e..4f860b2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,33 @@
+# esm-logging
 
+> This README is a stub. Working on it. Currently stabilizing the build
+  environment after that I'll make it nice around here.
 
-* [Logging Cookbook](doc/logging-cookbook.md)
+A quasi-port of the Python standard library logging module to ECMAScript.
 
+# Why?
+
+First of, because logging is important. It is important for debugging purposes,
+leading to faster and more resilient development, for traceability leading to
+better security. Most logging libraries I've discovered didn't satisfy me,
+introduced weird concepts and all in all just weren't great. Other programming
+language ecosystems offer way nicer logging facilities. Take Rust for example,
+or... Python! Python has PEP, giving it a very structured approach towards
+implementing new features and that's also how its logging facilities came to be
+([PEP 282](https://peps.python.org/pep-0282/)). Python's logging facilities are
+implemented by the [logging]() module, which is part of the standard library and
+has been since 2002. It was originally authored by Vinay Sajip
+
+# Roadmap
+
+- do a quasi-port of the logging module with minimal amount of adaption
+- add documentation
+- add support for asynchronous calls
+- implement Open Cybersecurity Framework (OCSF) formatter
+- implement (Browser) local storage handler as a replacement for file handler
+
+# Usage
+
+For the time being, please check out my [CI
+service](https://bitbucket.org/byteb4rb1e/esm-logging/pipelines), for an idea on
+how to build this.
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c4f96b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/TODO
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+# TODO List for esm-logging
+
+This is a poor-man's issue tracker. I am not primarily a GitHub user so don't
+want to commit to their issue tracking feature, but my primary SVC service
+provider (Bitbucket) only offers paid integration into their issue tracker
+(Jira). I don't have the time (and patience) at the moment to analyze the best
+approach, so this file will have to suffice.
+
+It's a very simple concept: Track any issues (features, bugfixes, hotfixes) in
+here, assign a sequential number to it and use that number when branching.
+
+I will try to develop a format so that I can parse the file later on, should I
+decide to migrate to a real issue tracker. It's probably going to be Bugzilla,
+but for that my html-theme-ref project needs to stabilize first.
+
+## Format Specification
+
+The file uses Markdown conventions for formatting headers and other text block
+entitities, but SHOULD NOT be considered a Markdown file. That's why it has no
+definitive file extension.
+
+Each issue entry follows a structured format for easier parsing and future
+migration.  Issues MUST be **appended** to this file and never moved, to
+preserve Git diffing.
+
+### Issue Format
+
+```
+
+ID: [ISSUE-NUMBER]
+Type: [feature/bugfix/hotfix]
+Title: [Short title]
+Status: [open/in-progress/done]
+Priority: [low/medium/high]
+Created: [YYYY-MM-DD]
+Description: [Detailed explanation]
+
+---
+```
+
+- ISSUE-NUMBERs must be sequential
+- truncation of description must be indentended so that every line starts at the
+  same column
+- issues must be started with two LF
+- issues must be terminated with two LF, then `---`
+- issues may have a free-text field (epilog), which must be started with two LF.
+
+## Issues
+
+ID: 1
+Type: feature
+Title: string formatting utilities
+Status: in-progress
+Priority: high
+Created: 2025-05-01
+Description: implement utilities for formatting strings. The formatting should
+             be inspired by Python 3K PEP 3101 in addition to their standard
+             library utilities starting from ver. 3.7. Optimizations should
+             focus on V8 support.
+
+---
+
+ID: 2
+Type: feature
+Title: describe development workflow in CONTRIBUTING.md
+Status: open
+Priority: medium
+Created: 2025-05-01
+Description: It's a good idea to describe the development workflow, including
+             branching strategies earlier on, so that if someone is interested
+             in forking, they can pick up right away. It's not meant for
+             contributions though. I'm currently not interested in external
+             contributions.
+
+---
diff --git a/bitbucket-pipelines.yml b/bitbucket-pipelines.yml
index 9a9a7a3..f11a6e3 100644
--- a/bitbucket-pipelines.yml
+++ b/bitbucket-pipelines.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ definitions:
                 - build/debug/**/*
                 - build/debug/*
             script:
+                - make clean
                 - make build/debug CI=1
         - step: &build-release
             name: Build (Release)
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ definitions:
                 - build/release/**/*
                 - build/release/*
             script:
+                - make clean
                 - make build/release CI=1
         - step: &build-doc
             name: Build (Doc)
@@ -44,6 +46,7 @@ definitions:
                 - build/doc/**/*
                 - build/doc/*
             script:
+                - make clean
                 - make build/doc CI=1
         - step: &dist
             name: Package
@@ -52,6 +55,7 @@ definitions:
             artifacts:
                 - dist/*
             script:
+                - rm -rvf test-reports/
                 - make dist CI=1
 pipelines:
     default:
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 11517e4..81eebd7 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
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+            },
+            "funding": {
+                "url": "https://github.com/chalk/ansi-styles?sponsor=1"
+            }
+        },
+        "node_modules/wrap-ansi/node_modules/strip-ansi": {
+            "version": "7.1.0",
+            "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/strip-ansi/-/strip-ansi-7.1.0.tgz",
+            "integrity": "sha512-iq6eVVI64nQQTRYq2KtEg2d2uU7LElhTJwsH4YzIHZshxlgZms/wIc4VoDQTlG/IvVIrBKG06CrZnp0qv7hkcQ==",
+            "dev": true,
+            "license": "MIT",
+            "dependencies": {
+                "ansi-regex": "^6.0.1"
+            },
+            "engines": {
+                "node": ">=12"
+            },
+            "funding": {
+                "url": "https://github.com/chalk/strip-ansi?sponsor=1"
+            }
         },
         "node_modules/write-file-atomic": {
             "version": "4.0.2",
@@ -4179,6 +4517,13 @@
                 "node": "^12.13.0 || ^14.15.0 || >=16.0.0"
             }
         },
+        "node_modules/write-file-atomic/node_modules/signal-exit": {
+            "version": "3.0.7",
+            "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/signal-exit/-/signal-exit-3.0.7.tgz",
+            "integrity": "sha512-wnD2ZE+l+SPC/uoS0vXeE9L1+0wuaMqKlfz9AMUo38JsyLSBWSFcHR1Rri62LZc12vLr1gb3jl7iwQhgwpAbGQ==",
+            "dev": true,
+            "license": "ISC"
+        },
         "node_modules/xml": {
             "version": "1.0.1",
             "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/xml/-/xml-1.0.1.tgz",
@@ -4245,6 +4590,28 @@
                 "node": ">=12"
             }
         },
+        "node_modules/yargs/node_modules/emoji-regex": {
+            "version": "8.0.0",
+            "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/emoji-regex/-/emoji-regex-8.0.0.tgz",
+            "integrity": "sha512-MSjYzcWNOA0ewAHpz0MxpYFvwg6yjy1NG3xteoqz644VCo/RPgnr1/GGt+ic3iJTzQ8Eu3TdM14SawnVUmGE6A==",
+            "dev": true,
+            "license": "MIT"
+        },
+        "node_modules/yargs/node_modules/string-width": {
+            "version": "4.2.3",
+            "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/string-width/-/string-width-4.2.3.tgz",
+            "integrity": "sha512-wKyQRQpjJ0sIp62ErSZdGsjMJWsap5oRNihHhu6G7JVO/9jIB6UyevL+tXuOqrng8j/cxKTWyWUwvSTriiZz/g==",
+            "dev": true,
+            "license": "MIT",
+            "dependencies": {
+                "emoji-regex": "^8.0.0",
+                "is-fullwidth-code-point": "^3.0.0",
+                "strip-ansi": "^6.0.1"
+            },
+            "engines": {
+                "node": ">=8"
+            }
+        },
         "node_modules/yn": {
             "version": "3.1.1",
             "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/yn/-/yn-3.1.1.tgz",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5bcf26d..f63284f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-    "name": "administratrix/esm-logging",
+    "name": "@administratrix/esm-logging",
     "version": "1.0.0",
     "description": "port of Python standard library logging module",
     "main": "lib/index.js",
@@ -24,7 +24,12 @@
         "jest-junit": "^16.0.0",
         "ts-jest": "^29.3.2",
         "ts-node": "^10.9.2",
-        "typedoc": "^0.27.9",
+        "typedoc": "^0.28.3",
         "typescript": "^5.8.3"
+    },
+    "overrides": {
+        "jest": {
+            "glob": "^11.0.1"
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/config.ts b/src/config.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..594d01d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/config.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,202 @@
+
+import { MANAGER } from './manager';
+import { ValueError } from './helper/error';
+import { STYLES, Formatter } from './formatter';
+import { StreamHandler, FileHandler, Handler } from './handler';
+import { LogLevel } from './log-level';
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Configuration classes and functions
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * options for basic configuration of logging module
+ */
+export interface BasicConfigOptions {
+    /*
+     * Specifies that a FileHandler be created, using the specified filename,
+     * rather than a StreamHandler.
+     */
+    filename?: string;
+
+    /**
+     * Specifies the mode to open the file, if filename is specified (if
+     * filemode is unspecified, it defaults to 'a')
+     */
+    filemode?: string;
+
+    /**
+     * Use the specified format string for the handler.
+     */
+    format?: string;
+
+    /**
+     * Use the specified date/time format.
+     *
+     */
+    datefmt?: string;
+
+    /**
+     * If a format string is specified, use this to specify the type of format
+     * string (possible values '%', '{', '$', for %-formatting,
+     * :meth:`str.format` and :class:`string.Template`- defaults to '%').
+     *
+     * TODO: switch to enum
+     */
+    style?: string;
+
+    /**
+     * Set the root logger level to the specified level.
+     */
+    level?: LogLevel;
+
+    /**
+     * Use the specified stream to initialize the StreamHandler.  Note that this
+     * argument is incompatible with 'filename' - if both are present, 'stream'
+     * is ignored.
+     *
+     * TODO:
+     */
+    stream?: any;
+
+    /**
+     * If specified, this should be an iterable of already created handlers,
+     * which will be added to the root logger. Any handler in the list which
+     * does not have a formatter assigned will be assigned the formatter created
+     * in this function.
+     */
+    handlers?: Handler[];
+
+    /**
+     * If this keyword  is specified as true, any existing handlers attached to
+     * the root logger are removed and closed, before carrying out the
+     * configuration as specified by the other arguments.
+     */
+    force?: boolean;
+
+    /**
+     * If specified together with a filename, this encoding is passed to the
+     * created FileHandler, causing it to be used when the file is opened.
+     */
+    encoding?: string;
+
+    /**
+     * If specified together with a filename, this value is 
+     * passed to the created FileHandler, causing it to be used 
+     * when the file is opened in text mode. If not specified, 
+     * the default value is `backslashreplace`.
+     */
+    errors?: string|null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Do basic configuration for the logging system.
+ *
+ * This function does nothing if the root logger already has handlers
+ * configured, unless the keyword argument *force* is set to ``True``.
+ * It is a convenience method intended for use by simple scripts
+ * to do one-shot configuration of the logging package.
+ *
+ * The default behaviour is to create a StreamHandler which writes to
+ * sys.stderr, set a formatter using the BASIC_FORMAT format string, and
+ * add the handler to the root logger.
+ *
+ * A number of optional keyword arguments may be specified, which can alter
+ * the default behaviour.
+ *
+ * Note that you could specify a stream created using open(filename, mode)
+ * rather than passing the filename and mode in. However, it should be
+ * remembered that StreamHandler does not close its stream (since it may be
+ * using sys.stdout or sys.stderr), whereas FileHandler closes its stream
+ * when the handler is closed.
+ *
+ * TODO: refactor logic, there apparently is some redundancy in the original
+ *       code
+ */
+export function basicConfig(options: BasicConfigOptions) {
+    const force = options.force ?? false;
+    var encoding = options.encoding ?? undefined;
+    var errors: string|undefined = options.errors ?? 'backslashreplace';
+    var handlers = options.handlers ?? [];
+    const filename = options.filename ?? null;
+    const stream = options.stream ?? null;
+    const filemode = options.filemode ?? 'a';
+    const dateformat = options.filemode ?? null;
+    const style = options.filemode ?? '%';
+    const level = options.level ?? null;
+
+    if (!Object.keys(STYLES).includes(style)) {
+        throw new ValueError(
+            `style must be one of: ${Object.keys(STYLES).join(', ')}`
+        );
+    }
+
+    if (force) {
+        for (var i = 0; i < MANAGER.root.handlers.length; i += 1) {
+            let h: Handler = MANAGER.root.handlers[i];
+            MANAGER.root.removeHandler(h);
+            h.close();
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (handlers.length == 0) {
+        if (handlers === null && stream && filename) {
+            throw new ValueError(
+                "'stream' and 'filename' should not be specified together"
+            );
+        }
+
+        else if (stream || filename) {
+            throw new ValueError(
+                "'stream' or 'filename' should not be specified together" +
+                "with 'handlers'"
+            );
+        }
+
+        if (handlers === null) {
+            var h: Handler;
+
+            if (filename) {
+                if (filemode.match('b')) { errors = undefined }
+                else { encoding = 'utf-8' }
+
+                h = new FileHandler({
+                    filename: filename,
+                    filemode: filemode,
+                    'encoding': encoding,
+                    errors: errors
+                });
+            }
+
+            else { h = new StreamHandler(stream) }
+
+            handlers = [h];
+        }
+
+        for (var i = 0; i < handlers.length; i += 1) {
+            let h = handlers[i];
+
+            if (h.formatter === null) {
+                h.formatter = new Formatter({
+                    fmt: options.format ?? STYLES[style][1],
+                    datefmt: dateformat,
+                    style: style
+                });
+            }
+
+            MANAGER.root.addHandler(h);
+        }
+
+        if (level !== null) { MANAGER.root.setLevel(level) }
+
+        if (options) {
+            // runtime interface guard, please let me stay. 🥺
+            // the interface does not allow for additional members, but the
+            // runtime environment has no concept of interfaces. We can stick to
+            // the original implementation
+            const keys = Object.keys(options).join(', ');
+
+            throw new ValueError(`Unrecognised argument(s): ${keys}`);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/filter.ts b/src/filter.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6c26b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/filter.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+import { LogRecord } from './log-record';
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Filter classes and functions
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+export type FilterCallable = (record: LogRecord) => boolean;
+
+/**
+ * Filter instances are used to perform arbitrary filtering of LogRecords.
+ *
+ * Loggers and Handlers can optionally use Filter instances to filter records as
+ * desired. The base filter class only allows events which are below a certain
+ * point in the logger hierarchy. For example, a filter initialized with "A.B"
+ * will allow events logged by loggers "A.B", initialized with the empty string,
+ * all events are passed.
+ */
+export class Filter {
+    public readonly scope: string;
+    public readonly slen: number;
+
+    /**
+     * Initialize with the name of the logger which ,together with its children,
+     * will have its events allowed through the filter. If no name is specified,
+     * allow every event.
+     *
+     * @param name - name of logging scope
+     */
+    constructor(scope: string) {
+        this.scope = scope ?? '';
+        this.slen = this.scope.length;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Inspect a record, if it should be logged.
+     *
+     * Returns true if the record should be logged, or false otherwise. If
+     * deemed appropriate, the record may be modified in-place.
+     *
+     * @param - scope of log record to inspect
+     * @param - log record to inspect
+     */
+    filter(record: LogRecord): boolean {
+        if (this.slen == 0 || this.scope == record.scope) { return true }
+        else if (!record.scope.substring(0, this.slen)) { return false }
+        return (record.scope[this.slen] == '.')
+    }
+}
+
+export class Filterer {
+    filters: Filter[] = [];
+
+    /**
+     * Add the specified filter to this handler.
+     *
+     * @param filter
+     */
+    addFilter(filter: Filter) {
+        if (!this.filters.includes(filter)) { this.filters.push(filter) }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Remove the specified filter from this handler.
+     *
+     * @param filter
+     */
+    removeFilter(filter: Filter) {
+        if (this.filters.includes(filter)) {
+            this.filters.splice(this.filters.indexOf(filter), 1)
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Determine if a record is loggable by consulting all the filters.
+     *
+     * The default is to allow the record to be logged; any filter can veto this
+     * by returning a false value.
+     * If a filter attached to a handler returns a log record instance, then
+     * that instance is used in place of the original log record in any further
+     * processing of the event by that handler.
+     * If a filter returns any other true value, the original log record is used
+     * in any further processing of the event by that handler.
+     *
+     * If none of the filters return false values, this method returns a log
+     * record.
+     *
+     * If any of the filters return a false value, this method returns a false
+     * value.
+     *
+     * @param filter
+     */
+    filter(record: LogRecord): LogRecord|null {
+
+        for (var i = 0; i < this.filters.length; i += 1) {
+            let result: boolean|LogRecord = false;
+
+            let filter = this.filters[i];
+
+            if (typeof (filter as Filter).filter == 'function') {
+                result = (filter as Filter).filter(record)
+            }
+            else {
+                result = (filter as unknown as FilterCallable)(record)
+            }
+
+            if (!result) { return null }
+
+            if ((result as any) instanceof LogRecord) { record = result as unknown as LogRecord }
+        }
+
+        return record
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/src/formatter.ts b/src/formatter.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7e0197c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/formatter.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,202 @@
+import { MyError, ValueError } from './helper/error';
+import { LogRecord } from './log-record';
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Formatter classes and functions
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+export interface PercentFormatterStyleOptions {
+    fmt?: string,
+    defaults: {[key: string]: any};
+}
+
+class PercentFormatterStyle {
+    public static defaultFormat = '%(message)s';
+    public static asctimeFormat = '%(asctime)s';
+    public static asctimeSearch = '%(asctime)';
+    public static validationPattern = 
+        /%\(\w+\)[#0+ -]*(\*|\d+)?(\.(\*|\d+))?[diouxefgcrsa%]/;
+
+    private fmt: string;
+    private defaults: {[key: string]: any};
+
+    constructor(options: PercentFormatterStyleOptions) {
+        this.fmt = options.fmt ?? PercentFormatterStyle.defaultFormat;
+        this.defaults = options.defaults;
+    }
+
+    usesTime(): boolean {
+        return  this.fmt.match(PercentFormatterStyle.asctimeFormat) ? true : false
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Validate the input format, ensure it matches the correct style
+     */
+    validate() {
+        if (!PercentFormatterStyle.validationPattern.test(this.fmt)) {
+            throw new ValueError(
+                `Invalid format '${this.fmt}' for ` +
+                `'${PercentFormatterStyle.defaultFormat[0]}'`
+            )
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected _format(record: LogRecord): string {
+        var defaults = this.defaults;
+        var values: {[key: string]: any}|null;
+        if (defaults) { values = {...this.defaults, ...Object.entries(record)} }
+        else { values = Object.entries(record) }
+        //TODO: implement formatting
+        return 'would do some formatting';
+    }
+
+    format(record: LogRecord): string {
+        try {
+            return this._format(record)
+        }
+        catch (e) {
+            throw new ValueError(`formatting field not found in record: ${e}`)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+const BASIC_FORMAT = '%(level)s:%(name)s:%(message)s';
+
+export const STYLES: {[key: string]: [{ new(options: PercentFormatterStyleOptions): PercentFormatterStyle}, string]} = {
+    '%': [PercentFormatterStyle, BASIC_FORMAT],
+}
+
+export interface FormatterOptions {
+    fmt?: string
+    datefmt?: any
+    style?: string
+    validate?: boolean
+    defaults?: {[key: string]: any}
+}
+
+/**
+ * Formatter instances are used to convert a LogRecord to text.
+ *
+ * Formatters need to know how a LogRecord is constructed. They are
+ * responsible for converting a LogRecord to (usually) a string which can
+ * be interpreted by either a human or an external system. The base Formatter
+ * allows a formatting string to be specified. If none is supplied, the
+ * style-dependent default value, "%(message)s", "{message}", or
+ * "${message}", is used.
+ *
+ * The Formatter can be initialized with a format string which makes use of
+ * knowledge of the LogRecord attributes - e.g. the default value mentioned
+ * above makes use of the fact that the user's message and arguments are pre-
+ * formatted into a LogRecord's message attribute. Currently, the useful
+ * attributes in a LogRecord are described by:
+ *
+ * %(name)s            Name of the logger (logging channel)
+ * %(levelno)s         Numeric logging level for the message (DEBUG, INFO,
+ *                     WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL)
+ * %(levelname)s       Text logging level for the message ("DEBUG", "INFO",
+ *                     "WARNING", "ERROR", "CRITICAL")
+ * %(pathname)s        Full pathname of the source file where the logging
+ *                     call was issued (if available)
+ * %(filename)s        Filename portion of pathname
+ * %(module)s          Module (name portion of filename)
+ * %(lineno)d          Source line number where the logging call was issued
+ *                     (if available)
+ * %(funcName)s        Function name
+ * %(created)f         Time when the LogRecord was created (time.time_ns() / 1e9
+ *                     return value)
+ * %(asctime)s         Textual time when the LogRecord was created
+ * %(msecs)d           Millisecond portion of the creation time
+ * %(relativeCreated)d Time in milliseconds when the LogRecord was created,
+ *                     relative to the time the logging module was loaded
+ *                     (typically at application startup time)
+ * %(thread)d          Thread ID (if available)
+ * %(threadName)s      Thread name (if available)
+ * %(taskName)s        Task name (if available)
+ * %(process)d         Process ID (if available)
+ * %(message)s         The result of record.getMessage(), computed just as
+ *                     the record is emitted
+ */
+export class Formatter {
+    public static defaultTimeFormat = '%Y-%M';
+    public static defaultMsecFormat = '%s,%30d';
+
+    protected style: any;
+    protected fmt: string;
+    protected datefmt: any;
+
+    /**
+     * Initialize the formatter with specified format strings.
+     *
+     * Initialize the formatter either with the specified format string, or a
+     * default as described above. Allow for specialized date formatting with
+     * the optional datefmt argument. If datefmt is omitted, you get an
+     * ISO8601-like (or RFC 3339-like) format.
+     *
+     * Use a style parameter of '%', '{' or '$' to specify that you want to
+     * use one of %-formatting, :meth:`str.format` (``{}``) formatting or
+     * :class:`string.Template` formatting in your format string.
+     */
+    constructor(options?: FormatterOptions) {
+        options = options ?? {};
+        var style = options.style ?? '%';
+        var validate = options.validate ?? true;
+
+        if (!Object.keys(STYLES).includes(style ?? '')) {
+            throw new ValueError(`style must be one of: ${Object.keys(STYLES).join(', ')}`)
+        }
+
+        this.style = new STYLES[style][0]({
+            fmt: options.fmt,
+            defaults: options.defaults ?? {}
+        });
+
+        if (validate) { this.style.validate() }
+
+        this.fmt = this.style.fmt;
+
+        this.datefmt = options.datefmt;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Return the creation time of the specified LogRecord as formatted text.
+     * 
+     * This method should be called from format() by a formatter which
+     * wants to make use of a formatted time. This method can be overridden
+     * in formatters to provide for any specific requirement, but the
+     * basic behaviour is as follows: if datefmt (a string) is specified,
+     * it is used with time.strftime() to format the creation time of the
+     * record. Otherwise, an ISO8601-like (or RFC 3339-like) format is used.
+     * The resulting string is returned. This function uses a user-configurable
+     * function to convert the creation time to a tuple. By default,
+     * time.localtime() is used; to change this for a particular formatter
+     * instance, set the 'converter' attribute to a function with the same
+     * signature as time.localtime() or time.gmtime(). To change it for all
+     * formatters, for example if you want all logging times to be shown in GMT,
+     * set the 'converter' attribute in the Formatter class.
+     */
+    formatTime(record: LogRecord, datefmt?: any): string {
+
+        //TODO: record.created
+        if (datefmt) {
+            //TODO: time.strftime
+        }
+        else {
+            //TODO: time.strftime
+        }
+
+        return 'some time';
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Format and return the specified exception information as a string.
+
+     * This default implementation just uses
+     * traceback.print_exception()
+     */
+    formatError(ei: MyError): string {
+        //TODO
+        return 'some error';
+    }
+}
+
+export const DEFAULT_FORMATTER = new Formatter();
diff --git a/src/handler.ts b/src/handler.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c75db06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/handler.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,199 @@
+import * as stream from 'stream';
+
+import { LogLevel, checkLevel, NOTSET } from './log-level';
+import { LogRecord } from './log-record';
+import { Formatter, DEFAULT_FORMATTER } from './formatter';
+import { Filterer } from './filter';
+import { NotImplementedError } from './helper/error';
+
+if (typeof window === 'undefined') {
+    const stream = require('stream');
+}
+else {
+    const stream = require('./helper/stream');
+}
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Handler classes and functions
+//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+type Handlers = {[key: string]: Handler};
+
+/**
+ * map of handler names to handlers
+ */
+const HANDLERS: Handlers = {}; 
+
+/**
+ * added to allow handlers to be removed in reverse order of initialization
+ */
+const HANDLER_LIST: WeakRef<Handler>[] = [];
+
+/**
+ * Add a handler to the internal cleanup list using a weak reference.
+ *
+ * @param handler -
+ */
+function addHandlerRef(handler: Handler) {
+    HANDLER_LIST.push(new WeakRef(handler));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Get a handler with the specified *name*, or None if there isn't one with
+ * that name.
+ */
+export function getHandlerByName(name: string): Handler|null {
+    return HANDLERS[name] ?? null
+}
+
+/**
+ * Return all known handler names as an immutable set
+ */
+export function getHandlerNames(): Handlers { return Object.freeze(HANDLERS) }
+
+/**
+ * Handler instances dispatch logging events to specific destinations.
+ *
+ * The base handler class. Acts as a placeholder which defines the Handler
+ * interface. Handlers can optionally use Formatter instances to format
+ * records as desired. By default, no formatter is specified; in this case,
+ * the 'raw' message as determined by record.message is logged.
+ */
+export class Handler extends Filterer {
+
+    protected _scope: string|null = null;
+    protected _formatter: Formatter|null = null;
+    protected _level: number;
+    protected _closed: boolean = false;
+
+    /**
+     * Initializes the instance - basically setting the formatter to None
+     * and the filter list to empty
+     */
+    constructor(level?: LogLevel) {
+        super();
+        this._level = checkLevel(level ?? NOTSET);
+        // Add the handler to the global HANDLER_LIST (for cleanup on shutdown)
+        addHandlerRef(this);
+    }
+
+    get level(): number { return this._level }
+    set level(level: LogLevel|string) { this.level = checkLevel(level) }
+
+    get scope(): string|null { return this._scope }
+    set scope(scope: string) { this._scope = scope }
+    get closed(): boolean { return this._closed }
+
+    /**
+     * Format the specified record.
+     * 
+     * If a formatter is set, use it. Otherwise, use the default formatter for
+     * the module.
+     */
+    format(record: LogRecord) {
+        var fmt: Formatter|null = null;
+
+        if (this.formatter) { fmt = this.formatter }
+        else { fmt = DEFAULT_FORMATTER }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Do whatever it takes to actually log the specified logging record.
+     *
+     * This version is intended to be implemented by subclasses and so raises a
+     * NotImplementedError.
+     */
+    emit(record: LogRecord) {
+        throw new NotImplementedError(
+            'emit must be implemented by Handler subclass'
+        )
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Conditionally emit the specfied logging record.
+     *
+     * Emission depends on filters which may have been added to the handler.
+     * Wrap the actual emission of the record with acquisition/release of the
+     * I/O thread lock.
+     */
+     handle(record: LogRecord) {
+        var rv = this.filter(record);
+        if ((rv as any) instanceof LogRecord) {
+            record = rv as unknown as LogRecord
+        }
+        if (rv) {
+            //locking here
+            this.emit(record)
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Tidy up any resources used by the handler
+     *
+     * This version removes the handler from an internal map of handlers, which
+     * is used for handler lookup by scope. Subclasses should ensure that this
+     * gets called from overriden close() methods.
+     */
+    close() {
+        this._closed = true;
+
+        if (this.scope && Object.keys(HANDLERS).includes(this.scope)) {
+            delete HANDLERS[this.scope]
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Handle errors which occur during an emit() call.
+     *
+     * This method should be called from handlers when an exception is
+     * encountered during an emit() call. If raiseExceptions is false,
+     * exceptions get silently ignored. This is what is mostly wanted
+     * for a logging system - most users will not care about errors in
+     * the logging system, they are more interested in application errors.
+     * You could, however, replace this with a custom handler if you wish.
+     * The record which was being processed is passed in to this method.
+     */
+    handleError(record: LogRecord) {
+        throw new NotImplementedError(
+            'still need to find portable way for stacktracing...'
+        )
+    }
+
+    set formatter(fmt: Formatter) { this._formatter = fmt }
+}
+
+export interface FileHandlerOptions {
+    filename: string
+    filemode?: string
+    encoding?: string
+    errors?: string
+}
+
+/**
+ * A handler class which writes logging records, appropriately formatted,
+   to a stream. Note that this class does not close the stream, as
+   sys.stdout or sys.stderr may be used.
+ */
+export class StreamHandler extends Handler {
+    constructor(stream?: stream.Writable) {
+        super();
+    }
+}
+
+export class FileHandler extends StreamHandler {
+    constructor(options: FileHandlerOptions) {
+        super();
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * This class is like a StreamHandler using sys.stderr, but always uses
+ * whatever sys.stderr is currently set to rather than the value of
+ * sys.stderr at handler construction time.
+ */
+ export class StderrHandler extends Handler {
+    /**
+     * Initialize the handler.
+     */
+    constructor(level: LogLevel) { super(level) }
+}
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index e5f0039..604c678 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -87,1321 +87,26 @@
  *
  * @module logging
  */
-import {
-    NotImplementedError,
-    MyError,
-    ValueError,
-    KeyError,
-    StackTrace
-} from './helper/error';
-import { MillisecondsSinceUnixEpoch } from './helper/datetime';
-import * as stream from 'stream';
 
-if (typeof window === 'undefined') {
-    const stream = require('stream');
-}
-else {
-    const stream = require('./helper/stream');
-}
+export * as config from './config';
+export * as filter from './filter';
+export * as formatter from './formatter';
+export * as handler from './handler';
+// screw community conventions, whoever came up with the idea of aliasing
+// imports in pascal case, or camel case doesn't seem to care about naming
+// collisions. I'm sticking to snake case as this avoids naming collisions.
+export * as log_level from './log-level';
+export * as log_record from './log-record';
+export * as logger from './logger';
+export * as manager from './manager';
 
-/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-   Level related stuff
-  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-  Default levels and level names, these can be replaced with any positive set
-  of values having corresponding names. There is a pseudo-level, NOTSET, which
-  is only really there as a lower limit for user-defined levels. Handlers and
-  loggers are initialized with NOTSET so that they will log all messages, even
-  at user-defined levels.
-*/
 
-export type LogLevel = number;
 
-/**
- * An indication that something unexpected happened, or that a problem might
- * occur in the near future (e.g. ‘disk space low’). The software is still
- * working as expected.
- */
-export const CRITICAL = 50;
-export const FATAL = CRITICAL;
 
-/**
- * Due to a more serious problem, the software has not been able to perform some
- * function.
- */
-export const ERROR = 40;
 
-/**
- * An indication that something unexpected happened, or that a problem might
- * occur in the near future (e.g. ‘disk space low’). The software is still
- * working as expected.
- */
-export const WARNING = 30;
-export const WARN = WARNING;
 
-/**
- * Confirmation that things are working as expected.
- */
-export const INFO = 20;
 
-/**
- * Detailed information, typically only of interest to a developer trying to
- * diagnose a problem.
- */
-export const DEBUG = 10;
 
-/**
- * When set on a logger, indicates that ancestor loggers are to be consulted to
- * determine the effective level. If that still resolves to NOTSET, then all
- * events are logged. When set on a handler, all events are handled.
- */
-export const NOTSET = 0;
 
-const LEVELTONAME: {[key: number]: string} = {
-    [CRITICAL]: 'CRITICAL',
-    [ERROR]: 'ERROR',
-    [WARNING]: 'WARNING',
-    [INFO]: 'INFO',
-    [DEBUG]: 'DEBUG',
-    [NOTSET]: 'NOTSET'
-}
 
-const NAMETOLEVEL: {[key: string]: number} = {
-    CRITICAL: CRITICAL,
-    ERROR: ERROR,
-    WARNING: WARNING,
-    INFO: INFO,
-    DEBUG: DEBUG,
-    NOTSET: NOTSET,
-}
-
-function getLevelNamesMapping() {
-    return Object.assign({}, NAMETOLEVEL);
-}
-
-/**
- * Return the textual or numeric representation of logging level 'level'
- *
- * @param level
- */
-export function getLevelName(level: string|number): string|number {
-    var result: string|number = LEVELTONAME[level as number];
-    if (result !== undefined) { return result }
-    result = NAMETOLEVEL[level as string];
-    if (result !== undefined) { return result }
-    return `Level ${level}`;
-}
-
-/**
- * Associate 'levelName' with 'level'
- *
- * @param level
- * @param levelName
- */
-export function addLevelName(level: number, levelName: string) {
-    LEVELTONAME[level] = levelName;
-    NAMETOLEVEL[levelName] = level;
-}
-
-function checkLevel(level: number|string): number {
-    var rv: number;
-
-    if (typeof level == 'number') { rv = level }
-
-    else if (typeof level == 'string') {
-        if (!Object.keys(NAMETOLEVEL).includes(level as string)) {
-            throw new Error(`Unknown level: ${level}`)
-        }
-
-        rv = NAMETOLEVEL[level]
-    }
-
-    else {
-        throw new Error(`Level not a number or valid string: ${level}`)
-    }
-
-    return rv
-}
-
-export type ExecutionInfo = [string, Error, StackTrace];
-
-//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// The logging record
-//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-/**
- * options for instantiating a new log record
- */
-export interface LogRecordOptions {
-    /**
-     * The numeric level of the logging event (such as 10 for DEBUG, 20 for
-     * INFO, etc). Note that this is converted to two attributes of the
-     * LogRecord: levelno for the numeric value and levelname for the
-     * corresponding level name.
-     */
-    level: number,
-    file?: string,
-    /**
-     * The line number in the source file where the logging call was made.
-     */
-    lno?: number,
-    /**
-     * The event description message, which can be a %-format string with
-     * placeholders for variable data, or an arbitrary object (see Using
-     * arbitrary objects as messages).
-     */
-    msg: string,
-    /**
-     * Variable data to merge into the msg argument to obtain the event
-     * description.
-     */
-    args?: any[],
-}
-
-export type LogRecordFactory = { (name: string, options: LogRecordOptions): LogRecord };
-
-/**
- * LogRecord instances are created every time something is logged. They contain
- * all the information pertinent to  the event being logged. The main
- * information parssed in is msg and args, which are combined using str(msg) %
- * args to create the message field of the record. The record also includes
- * information such as when the record was created, the source line where the
- * logging call was made, and any exception information to be logged.
- */
-export class LogRecord {
-    public readonly levelno: LogLevel;
-    public readonly levelname: string|LogLevel;
-    public readonly scope: string;
-
-    public readonly created: MillisecondsSinceUnixEpoch = Date.now();
-
-    constructor(scope: string, options: LogRecordOptions) {
-        this.levelno = options.level;
-        this.levelname = getLevelName(options.level);
-        this.scope = scope;
-    }
-}
-
-var logRecordFactory = (scope: string, options: LogRecordOptions) => {
-    return new LogRecord(scope, options)
-};
-
-/**
- * Define which class use when instantiating log records.
- *
- * @param factory - A callable which will be called to instantiate a log record.
- *                  Pass a clojure, if your factory is a class already.
- */
-export function setLogRecordFactory(factory: LogRecordFactory) {
-    logRecordFactory = factory
-}
-
-export function getLogRecordFactory(): LogRecordFactory {
-    return logRecordFactory
-}
-
-//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Formatter classes and functions
-//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-export interface PercentFormatterStyleOptions {
-    fmt?: string,
-    defaults: {[key: string]: any};
-}
-
-class PercentFormatterStyle {
-    public static defaultFormat = '%(message)s';
-    public static asctimeFormat = '%(asctime)s';
-    public static asctimeSearch = '%(asctime)';
-    public static validationPattern = 
-        /%\(\w+\)[#0+ -]*(\*|\d+)?(\.(\*|\d+))?[diouxefgcrsa%]/;
-
-    private fmt: string;
-    private defaults: {[key: string]: any};
-
-    constructor(options: PercentFormatterStyleOptions) {
-        this.fmt = options.fmt ?? PercentFormatterStyle.defaultFormat;
-        this.defaults = options.defaults;
-    }
-
-    usesTime(): boolean {
-        return  this.fmt.match(PercentFormatterStyle.asctimeFormat) ? true : false
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Validate the input format, ensure it matches the correct style
-     */
-    validate() {
-        if (!PercentFormatterStyle.validationPattern.test(this.fmt)) {
-            throw new ValueError(
-                `Invalid format '${this.fmt}' for ` +
-                `'${PercentFormatterStyle.defaultFormat[0]}'`
-            )
-        }
-    }
-
-    protected _format(record: LogRecord): string {
-        var defaults = this.defaults;
-        var values: {[key: string]: any}|null;
-        if (defaults) { values = {...this.defaults, ...Object.entries(record)} }
-        else { values = Object.entries(record) }
-        //TODO: implement formatting
-        return 'would do some formatting';
-    }
-
-    format(record: LogRecord): string {
-        try {
-            return this._format(record)
-        }
-        catch (e) {
-            throw new ValueError(`formatting field not found in record: ${e}`)
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-const BASIC_FORMAT = '%(level)s:%(name)s:%(message)s';
-
-const STYLES: {[key: string]: [{ new(options: PercentFormatterStyleOptions): PercentFormatterStyle}, string]} = {
-    '%': [PercentFormatterStyle, BASIC_FORMAT],
-}
-
-export interface FormatterOptions {
-    fmt?: string
-    datefmt?: any
-    style?: string
-    validate?: boolean
-    defaults?: {[key: string]: any}
-}
-
-/**
- * Formatter instances are used to convert a LogRecord to text.
- *
- * Formatters need to know how a LogRecord is constructed. They are
- * responsible for converting a LogRecord to (usually) a string which can
- * be interpreted by either a human or an external system. The base Formatter
- * allows a formatting string to be specified. If none is supplied, the
- * style-dependent default value, "%(message)s", "{message}", or
- * "${message}", is used.
- *
- * The Formatter can be initialized with a format string which makes use of
- * knowledge of the LogRecord attributes - e.g. the default value mentioned
- * above makes use of the fact that the user's message and arguments are pre-
- * formatted into a LogRecord's message attribute. Currently, the useful
- * attributes in a LogRecord are described by:
- *
- * %(name)s            Name of the logger (logging channel)
- * %(levelno)s         Numeric logging level for the message (DEBUG, INFO,
- *                     WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL)
- * %(levelname)s       Text logging level for the message ("DEBUG", "INFO",
- *                     "WARNING", "ERROR", "CRITICAL")
- * %(pathname)s        Full pathname of the source file where the logging
- *                     call was issued (if available)
- * %(filename)s        Filename portion of pathname
- * %(module)s          Module (name portion of filename)
- * %(lineno)d          Source line number where the logging call was issued
- *                     (if available)
- * %(funcName)s        Function name
- * %(created)f         Time when the LogRecord was created (time.time_ns() / 1e9
- *                     return value)
- * %(asctime)s         Textual time when the LogRecord was created
- * %(msecs)d           Millisecond portion of the creation time
- * %(relativeCreated)d Time in milliseconds when the LogRecord was created,
- *                     relative to the time the logging module was loaded
- *                     (typically at application startup time)
- * %(thread)d          Thread ID (if available)
- * %(threadName)s      Thread name (if available)
- * %(taskName)s        Task name (if available)
- * %(process)d         Process ID (if available)
- * %(message)s         The result of record.getMessage(), computed just as
- *                     the record is emitted
- */
-export class Formatter {
-    public static defaultTimeFormat = '%Y-%M';
-    public static defaultMsecFormat = '%s,%30d';
-
-    protected style: any;
-    protected fmt: string;
-    protected datefmt: any;
-
-    /**
-     * Initialize the formatter with specified format strings.
-     *
-     * Initialize the formatter either with the specified format string, or a
-     * default as described above. Allow for specialized date formatting with
-     * the optional datefmt argument. If datefmt is omitted, you get an
-     * ISO8601-like (or RFC 3339-like) format.
-     *
-     * Use a style parameter of '%', '{' or '$' to specify that you want to
-     * use one of %-formatting, :meth:`str.format` (``{}``) formatting or
-     * :class:`string.Template` formatting in your format string.
-     */
-    constructor(options?: FormatterOptions) {
-        options = options ?? {};
-        var style = options.style ?? '%';
-        var validate = options.validate ?? true;
-
-        if (!Object.keys(STYLES).includes(style ?? '')) {
-            throw new ValueError(`style must be one of: ${Object.keys(STYLES).join(', ')}`)
-        }
-
-        this.style = new STYLES[style][0]({
-            fmt: options.fmt,
-            defaults: options.defaults ?? {}
-        });
-
-        if (validate) { this.style.validate() }
-
-        this.fmt = this.style.fmt;
-
-        this.datefmt = options.datefmt;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Return the creation time of the specified LogRecord as formatted text.
-     * 
-     * This method should be called from format() by a formatter which
-     * wants to make use of a formatted time. This method can be overridden
-     * in formatters to provide for any specific requirement, but the
-     * basic behaviour is as follows: if datefmt (a string) is specified,
-     * it is used with time.strftime() to format the creation time of the
-     * record. Otherwise, an ISO8601-like (or RFC 3339-like) format is used.
-     * The resulting string is returned. This function uses a user-configurable
-     * function to convert the creation time to a tuple. By default,
-     * time.localtime() is used; to change this for a particular formatter
-     * instance, set the 'converter' attribute to a function with the same
-     * signature as time.localtime() or time.gmtime(). To change it for all
-     * formatters, for example if you want all logging times to be shown in GMT,
-     * set the 'converter' attribute in the Formatter class.
-     */
-    formatTime(record: LogRecord, datefmt?: any): string {
-
-        //TODO: record.created
-        if (datefmt) {
-            //TODO: time.strftime
-        }
-        else {
-            //TODO: time.strftime
-        }
-
-        return 'some time';
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Format and return the specified exception information as a string.
-
-     * This default implementation just uses
-     * traceback.print_exception()
-     */
-    formatError(ei: MyError): string {
-        //TODO
-        return 'some error';
-    }
-}
-
-const DEFAULT_FORMATTER = new Formatter();
-
-//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Filter classes and functions
-//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-export type FilterCallable = (record: LogRecord) => boolean;
-
-/**
- * Filter instances are used to perform arbitrary filtering of LogRecords.
- *
- * Loggers and Handlers can optionally use Filter instances to filter records as
- * desired. The base filter class only allows events which are below a certain
- * point in the logger hierarchy. For example, a filter initialized with "A.B"
- * will allow events logged by loggers "A.B", initialized with the empty string,
- * all events are passed.
- */
-export class Filter {
-    public readonly scope: string;
-    public readonly slen: number;
-
-    /**
-     * Initialize with the name of the logger which ,together with its children,
-     * will have its events allowed through the filter. If no name is specified,
-     * allow every event.
-     *
-     * @param name - name of logging scope
-     */
-    constructor(scope: string) {
-        this.scope = scope ?? '';
-        this.slen = this.scope.length;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Inspect a record, if it should be logged.
-     *
-     * Returns true if the record should be logged, or false otherwise. If
-     * deemed appropriate, the record may be modified in-place.
-     *
-     * @param - scope of log record to inspect
-     * @param - log record to inspect
-     */
-    filter(record: LogRecord): boolean {
-        if (this.slen == 0 || this.scope == record.scope) { return true }
-        else if (!record.scope.substring(0, this.slen)) { return false }
-        return (record.scope[this.slen] == '.')
-    }
-}
-
-export class Filterer {
-    filters: Filter[] = [];
-
-    /**
-     * Add the specified filter to this handler.
-     *
-     * @param filter
-     */
-    addFilter(filter: Filter) {
-        if (!this.filters.includes(filter)) { this.filters.push(filter) }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Remove the specified filter from this handler.
-     *
-     * @param filter
-     */
-    removeFilter(filter: Filter) {
-        if (this.filters.includes(filter)) {
-            this.filters.splice(this.filters.indexOf(filter), 1)
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Determine if a record is loggable by consulting all the filters.
-     *
-     * The default is to allow the record to be logged; any filter can veto this
-     * by returning a false value.
-     * If a filter attached to a handler returns a log record instance, then
-     * that instance is used in place of the original log record in any further
-     * processing of the event by that handler.
-     * If a filter returns any other true value, the original log record is used
-     * in any further processing of the event by that handler.
-     *
-     * If none of the filters return false values, this method returns a log
-     * record.
-     *
-     * If any of the filters return a false value, this method returns a false
-     * value.
-     *
-     * @param filter
-     */
-    filter(record: LogRecord): LogRecord|null {
-
-        for (var i = 0; i < this.filters.length; i += 1) {
-            let result: boolean|LogRecord = false;
-
-            let filter = this.filters[i];
-
-            if (typeof (filter as Filter).filter == 'function') {
-                result = (filter as Filter).filter(record)
-            }
-            else {
-                result = (filter as unknown as FilterCallable)(record)
-            }
-
-            if (!result) { return null }
-
-            if ((result as any) instanceof LogRecord) { record = result as unknown as LogRecord }
-        }
-
-        return record
-    }
-}
-
-var throwErrors: boolean = true;
-
-//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Handler classes and functions
-//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-type Handlers = {[key: string]: Handler};
-
-/**
- * map of handler names to handlers
- */
-const HANDLERS: Handlers = {}; 
-
-/**
- * added to allow handlers to be removed in reverse order of initialization
- */
-const HANDLER_LIST: WeakRef<Handler>[] = [];
-
-/**
- * Add a handler to the internal cleanup list using a weak reference.
- *
- * @param handler -
- */
-function addHandlerRef(handler: Handler) {
-    HANDLER_LIST.push(new WeakRef(handler));
-}
-
-/**
- * Get a handler with the specified *name*, or None if there isn't one with
- * that name.
- */
-export function getHandlerByName(name: string): Handler|null {
-    return HANDLERS[name] ?? null
-}
-
-/**
- * Return all known handler names as an immutable set
- */
-export function getHandlerNames(): Handlers { return Object.freeze(HANDLERS) }
-
-/**
- * Handler instances dispatch logging events to specific destinations.
- *
- * The base handler class. Acts as a placeholder which defines the Handler
- * interface. Handlers can optionally use Formatter instances to format
- * records as desired. By default, no formatter is specified; in this case,
- * the 'raw' message as determined by record.message is logged.
- */
-export class Handler extends Filterer {
-
-    protected _scope: string|null = null;
-    protected _formatter: Formatter|null = null;
-    protected _level: number;
-    protected _closed: boolean = false;
-
-    /**
-     * Initializes the instance - basically setting the formatter to None
-     * and the filter list to empty
-     */
-    constructor(level?: LogLevel) {
-        super();
-        this._level = checkLevel(level ?? NOTSET);
-        // Add the handler to the global HANDLER_LIST (for cleanup on shutdown)
-        addHandlerRef(this);
-    }
-
-    get level(): number { return this._level }
-    set level(level: LogLevel|string) { this.level = checkLevel(level) }
-
-    get scope(): string|null { return this._scope }
-    set scope(scope: string) { this._scope = scope }
-    get closed(): boolean { return this._closed }
-
-    /**
-     * Format the specified record.
-     * 
-     * If a formatter is set, use it. Otherwise, use the default formatter for
-     * the module.
-     */
-    format(record: LogRecord) {
-        var fmt: Formatter|null = null;
-
-        if (this.formatter) { fmt = this.formatter }
-        else { fmt = DEFAULT_FORMATTER }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Do whatever it takes to actually log the specified logging record.
-     *
-     * This version is intended to be implemented by subclasses and so raises a
-     * NotImplementedError.
-     */
-    emit(record: LogRecord) {
-        throw new NotImplementedError(
-            'emit must be implemented by Handler subclass'
-        )
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Conditionally emit the specfied logging record.
-     *
-     * Emission depends on filters which may have been added to the handler.
-     * Wrap the actual emission of the record with acquisition/release of the
-     * I/O thread lock.
-     */
-     handle(record: LogRecord) {
-        var rv = this.filter(record);
-        if ((rv as any) instanceof LogRecord) {
-            record = rv as unknown as LogRecord
-        }
-        if (rv) {
-            //locking here
-            this.emit(record)
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Tidy up any resources used by the handler
-     *
-     * This version removes the handler from an internal map of handlers, which
-     * is used for handler lookup by scope. Subclasses should ensure that this
-     * gets called from overriden close() methods.
-     */
-    close() {
-        this._closed = true;
-
-        if (this.scope && Object.keys(HANDLERS).includes(this.scope)) {
-            delete HANDLERS[this.scope]
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Handle errors which occur during an emit() call.
-     *
-     * This method should be called from handlers when an exception is
-     * encountered during an emit() call. If raiseExceptions is false,
-     * exceptions get silently ignored. This is what is mostly wanted
-     * for a logging system - most users will not care about errors in
-     * the logging system, they are more interested in application errors.
-     * You could, however, replace this with a custom handler if you wish.
-     * The record which was being processed is passed in to this method.
-     */
-    handleError(record: LogRecord) {
-        throw new NotImplementedError(
-            'still need to find portable way for stacktracing...'
-        )
-    }
-
-    set formatter(fmt: Formatter) { this._formatter = fmt }
-}
-
-export interface FileHandlerOptions {
-    filename: string
-    filemode?: string
-    encoding?: string
-    errors?: string
-}
-
-/**
- * A handler class which writes logging records, appropriately formatted,
-   to a stream. Note that this class does not close the stream, as
-   sys.stdout or sys.stderr may be used.
- */
-export class StreamHandler extends Handler {
-    constructor(stream?: stream.Writable) {
-        super();
-    }
-}
-
-export class FileHandler extends StreamHandler {
-    constructor(options: FileHandlerOptions) {
-        super();
-    }
-}
-
-/**
- * This class is like a StreamHandler using sys.stderr, but always uses
- * whatever sys.stderr is currently set to rather than the value of
- * sys.stderr at handler construction time.
- */
- export class StderrHandler extends Handler {
-    /**
-     * Initialize the handler.
-     */
-    constructor(level: LogLevel) { super(level) }
-}
-
-const DEFAULT_LAST_RESORT = new StderrHandler(WARNING);
-
-export var lastResort = DEFAULT_LAST_RESORT;
-
-//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Manager classes and functions
-//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-/**
- * Placeholder instance
- */
-export class Placeholder {
-    protected loggers: Logger[] = [];
-
-    /**
-     * initialize with the specified logger being a child of this placeholder.
-     */
-    constructor(logger: Logger) { this.push(logger) }
-
-    /**
-     * add the specified logger as a child of this placeholder
-     */
-    public push(logger: Logger) {
-        if (!this.loggers.includes(logger)) { this.loggers.push(logger) }
-    }
-}
-
-/**
- * There is [under normal circumstances] just one Manager intance, which holds
- * the hierarchy of loggers.
- */
-export class Manager {
-    public readonly root: RootLogger;
-    protected _disable: number = 0;
-    public emittedNoHandlerWarning: boolean = false;
-    protected loggers: {[key: string]: Logger} = {};
-    protected _loggerClass: LoggerClass|null = null;
-    protected _logRecordFactory: LogRecordFactory|null = null;
-
-    public get disable(): number { return this._disable }
-
-    public set disable(level: LogLevel) { this._disable = checkLevel(level) }
-
-    /**
-     * Initialize the manager with the root node of the logger hierarchy
-     */
-    constructor(root: RootLogger) {
-        this.root = root;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Get a logger with the specified name (scope name), creating it, if it
-     * does not yet exist. This name is a dot-separated hierarchical name, such
-     * as "a", "a.b", "a.b.c" or similar.
-     *
-     * If a PlaceHolder existed for the specified name [i.e. the logger didn't
-     * exist but a child of it did], replace it with the created logger and fix
-     * up the parent/child references which pointed to the placeholder to now
-     * point to the logger.
-     */
-    getLogger(scope: string) {
-        var rv: null|Logger = null;
-
-        if (typeof scope != 'string') {
-
-            rv = this.loggers[scope];
-
-            if (rv instanceof Placeholder) {
-                var ph = rv;
-                rv = new (this._loggerClass ?? loggerClass)(scope, NOTSET);
-            }
-            else {
-                rv = new (this._loggerClass ?? loggerClass)(scope, NOTSET);
-                this.loggers[scope] = rv;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Set the class to be used when instantiating a logger with this Manager.
-     */
-    set loggerClass(class_: LoggerClass) {
-        if (class_ !== Logger) {
-            if (!(class_.prototype instanceof Logger)) {
-                throw new TypeError("logger not derived from logging.Logger: ")
-            }
-        }
-
-        this._loggerClass = class_;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Set the factory to be used when instantiating a log record with this
-     * Manager.
-     */
-    set logRecordFactory(factory: LogRecordFactory) {
-        this._logRecordFactory = factory;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * clear the cache for all loggers in loggerDict
-     */
-    public clear() {
-        Object.values(this.loggers).forEach((logger) => {
-            logger.clear()
-        });
-    }
-}
-
-//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Logger classes and functions
-//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-export type LoggerClass = { new(): Logger };
-
-/**
- * context of a logging event/trigger
- */
-export interface LogOptions{
-    /**
-     * 
-     */
-    excInfo: ExecutionInfo|Error|null,
-    /**
-     * 
-     */
-    extra: {[key: string]: any}|null,
-    /**
-     *
-     */
-    stackInfo: boolean,
-    /**
-     *
-     */
-    stackLevel: number
-}
-
-const DEFAULT_LOG_OPTIONS: LogOptions = Object.freeze({
-    excInfo: null,
-    extra: null,
-    stackInfo: false,
-    stackLevel: 1
-});
-
-/**
- * Instances of the logger class represent a single logging channel. A 'logging
- * channel' indicates an area of an application. Exactly how an 'area' is
- * defined is up to the application developer. Since an application can have any
- * number of areas, logging channels are identified by a unique string.
- * Application areas can be nested (e.g. an area of input process might include
- * sub-areas "read CSV file", "read XLS files" and "read Gnumeric files"). To
- * cater for this natural nesting, channel ames are organized into a namespace
- * hierarchy where levels are separated by periods, much like the Java or Python
- * package namespace. So in the instance given above, channel names might be
- * "input" for the upper level, and "input.csv", "input.xls" and "input.gnu" for
- * the sub-levels.
- * There is no arbitrary limit to the depth of nesting.
- */
-export class Logger extends Filterer {
-    public readonly scope: string;
-    public _level: number;
-    private  _manager: Manager|null = null;
-    public readonly parent: Logger|null = null;
-    public readonly propagate: boolean = true;
-    public readonly handlers: Handler[] = [];
-    public readonly disabled: boolean = false;
-    private cache: {[key: number]: boolean} = {};
-
-    /**
-     * Initialize the logger with a name and an optional level
-     *
-     * @param scope - 
-     * @param level -
-     * @param manager -
-     */
-    constructor(
-        scope: string,
-        level?: LogLevel,
-    ) {
-        super();
-
-        this.scope = scope;
-        this._level = checkLevel(level ?? NOTSET);
-    }
-
-    public get level() { return this._level }
-
-    public set level(level: LogLevel) { this._level = checkLevel(level) }
-
-    public set manager(manager: Manager) {
-        if (this.manager) {
-            throw new ValueError('logger can only be assigned to manager once');
-        }
-    }
-
-    public setLevel(level: LogLevel) {
-        this.level = checkLevel(level);
-
-        //this.manager.clearCache()
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Get the effective level for this logger.
-     *
-     * Loop through this logger and its parents in the logger hierarchy, looking
-     * for a non-zero logging level. Return the first one found.
-     */
-    public getEffectiveLevel() {
-        var logger: Logger|null = this;
-
-        while (logger) {
-            if (logger.level) { return logger.level }
-            logger = logger.parent;
-        }
-
-        return NOTSET;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Is this logger enabled for level 'level'?
-     */
-    public isEnabledFor(level: LogLevel): boolean {
-        if (this.disabled) { return false }
-
-        if (this.cache[level] === undefined && this.manager && this.manager.disable < level) {
-            return this.cache[level] = (
-                level >= this.getEffectiveLevel()
-            );
-        }
-
-        return this.cache[level] = false;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Log 'msg % args' with severity 'DEBUG'
-     *
-     * To pass exception information, use the keyword argument exc_info with
-     * a true value, e.g.
-     *
-     * ```
-     * logger.debug("Houston, we have a thorny problem", { exc_info: true })
-     * ```
-     */
-    public debug(msg: string, options?: LogOptions) {
-        if (this.isEnabledFor(DEBUG)) { this._log(DEBUG, msg, options) }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * A factory method which can be overriden in subclasses to create
-     * specialized LogRecords.
-     *
-     * 
-     */
-    protected makeRecord(
-        name: string,
-        level: LogLevel,
-        msg: string,
-        options: LogOptions,
-    ): LogRecord {
-
-        var recordOptions: LogRecordOptions = {
-            level: level,
-            msg: msg,
-        };
-
-        var rv = logRecordFactory(name, recordOptions);
-
-        if (options.extra !== null) {
-            Object.entries(options.extra!).forEach((item) => {
-
-                var [k, v] = item;
-
-                if (['message', 'asctime'].includes(k as string) ||
-                    (rv as {[key: string]: any}).keys().includes(k as string)) {
-                    throw new KeyError('attempt to overwrite ${k} in LogRecord')
-                }
-
-                (rv as any)[k] = options.extra![k as string] as any
-            })
-        }
-
-        return rv
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Low-level logging routine which creates a LogRecord and then calls the
-     * handlers of this logger to handle the record.
-     */
-    protected _log(level: LogLevel, msg: string, options?: LogOptions) {
-        options = options ?? DEFAULT_LOG_OPTIONS;
-        options = { ...DEFAULT_LOG_OPTIONS, ...options };
-
-        var sinfo=null;
-
-        if (options!.excInfo !== null) {
-            if (options!.excInfo instanceof Error) {
-                var excInfo: ExecutionInfo = [
-                    typeof options!.excInfo,
-                    options!.excInfo,
-                    options!.excInfo.stack!
-                ]
-            }
-            else if (!(options!.excInfo instanceof Array)) {
-                throw new NotImplementedError("would try to get the callee stack from the system. Probably will use stacktrace.js as this needs to be implemented browser-specific.");
-            }
-        }
-
-        var record = this.makeRecord(this.scope, level, msg, options)
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Call the handlers for the specified record.
-     *
-     * This method is used for unpickled records received from a socket, as well
-     * as those created locally. Logger-level filtering is applied.
-     */
-    protected handle(scope: string, record: LogRecord) {
-        if (this.disabled) { return }
-        var maybeRecord = this.filter(record);
-        if (!maybeRecord) { return }
-        if ((maybeRecord as any) instanceof LogRecord) { record = maybeRecord }
-        this.callHandlers(record)
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Pass a record to all relevant handlers.
-     *
-     * Loop through all handlers for this logger and its parents n the logger
-     * hierarchy. If no handler was found, output a one-off error message to
-     * sys.stderr. Stop searching up the hierarchy whenever a logger with the
-     * "propagate" attribute set to zero is found - that will be the last logger
-     * whose handlers are called.
-     */
-    protected callHandlers(record: LogRecord) {
-        var c: Logger|null = this;
-        var found = 0;
-
-        while (c) {
-            for (var i = 0; i < c.handlers.length; i += 1) {
-                let hdlr = c.handlers[i];
-
-                found = found + 1;
-
-                if (record.levelno >= hdlr.level) { hdlr.handle(record) }
-            }
-
-            if (!c.propagate) { c = null }
-            else { c = c.parent }
-        }
-
-        if (found == 0) {
-            if (lastResort) {
-                if (record.levelno >= lastResort.level) {
-                    lastResort.handle(record)
-                }
-                else if (throwErrors && (this.manager && !this.manager.emittedNoHandlerWarning)) {
-                    console.error(
-                        `No handlers could be found for logger ${this.scope}`
-                    );
-
-                    this.manager.emittedNoHandlerWarning = true;
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    public clear() {
-        for (var property in this.cache) delete this.cache[property];
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Remove the specified handler from this logger.
-     */
-    public addHandler(hdlr: Handler) {
-        const i = this.handlers.indexOf(hdlr); 
-        if (i === -1) { this.handlers.push(hdlr) }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Remove the specified handler from this logger.
-     */
-    public removeHandler(hdlr: Handler) {
-        const i = this.handlers.indexOf(hdlr); 
-        if (i !== -1) { delete this.handlers[i] }
-    }
-}
-
-/**
- * A root logger is not that different to any other logger, except that it must
- * have a logging level and there is only one instance of in a manager's
- * hierarchy.
- */
-class RootLogger extends Logger {
-
-    constructor(level: LogLevel) {
-        super('root', level);
-    }
-}
-
-var loggerClass = Logger;
-
-/**
- * root logger (singleton)
- */
-const ROOT = new RootLogger(WARNING);
-
-/**
- * log manager (singleton)
- */
-const MANAGER = new Manager(ROOT);
-
-//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Configuration classes and functions
-//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-/**
- * options for basic configuration of logging module
- */
-export interface BasicConfigOptions {
-    /*
-     * Specifies that a FileHandler be created, using the specified filename,
-     * rather than a StreamHandler.
-     */
-    filename?: string;
-
-    /**
-     * Specifies the mode to open the file, if filename is specified (if
-     * filemode is unspecified, it defaults to 'a')
-     */
-    filemode?: string;
-
-    /**
-     * Use the specified format string for the handler.
-     */
-    format?: string;
-
-    /**
-     * Use the specified date/time format.
-     *
-     */
-    datefmt?: string;
-
-    /**
-     * If a format string is specified, use this to specify the type of format
-     * string (possible values '%', '{', '$', for %-formatting,
-     * :meth:`str.format` and :class:`string.Template`- defaults to '%').
-     *
-     * TODO: switch to enum
-     */
-    style?: string;
-
-    /**
-     * Set the root logger level to the specified level.
-     */
-    level?: LogLevel;
-
-    /**
-     * Use the specified stream to initialize the StreamHandler.  Note that this
-     * argument is incompatible with 'filename' - if both are present, 'stream'
-     * is ignored.
-     *
-     * TODO:
-     */
-    stream?: any;
-
-    /**
-     * If specified, this should be an iterable of already created handlers,
-     * which will be added to the root logger. Any handler in the list which
-     * does not have a formatter assigned will be assigned the formatter created
-     * in this function.
-     */
-    handlers?: Handler[];
-
-    /**
-     * If this keyword  is specified as true, any existing handlers attached to
-     * the root logger are removed and closed, before carrying out the
-     * configuration as specified by the other arguments.
-     */
-    force?: boolean;
-
-    /**
-     * If specified together with a filename, this encoding is passed to the
-     * created FileHandler, causing it to be used when the file is opened.
-     */
-    encoding?: string;
-
-    /**
-     * If specified together with a filename, this value is 
-     * passed to the created FileHandler, causing it to be used 
-     * when the file is opened in text mode. If not specified, 
-     * the default value is `backslashreplace`.
-     */
-    errors?: string|null;
-}
-
-/**
- * Do basic configuration for the logging system.
- *
- * This function does nothing if the root logger already has handlers
- * configured, unless the keyword argument *force* is set to ``True``.
- * It is a convenience method intended for use by simple scripts
- * to do one-shot configuration of the logging package.
- *
- * The default behaviour is to create a StreamHandler which writes to
- * sys.stderr, set a formatter using the BASIC_FORMAT format string, and
- * add the handler to the root logger.
- *
- * A number of optional keyword arguments may be specified, which can alter
- * the default behaviour.
- *
- * Note that you could specify a stream created using open(filename, mode)
- * rather than passing the filename and mode in. However, it should be
- * remembered that StreamHandler does not close its stream (since it may be
- * using sys.stdout or sys.stderr), whereas FileHandler closes its stream
- * when the handler is closed.
- *
- * TODO: refactor logic, there apparently is some redundancy in the original
- *       code
- */
-export function basicConfig(options: BasicConfigOptions) {
-    const force = options.force ?? false;
-    var encoding = options.encoding ?? undefined;
-    var errors: string|undefined = options.errors ?? 'backslashreplace';
-    var handlers = options.handlers ?? [];
-    const filename = options.filename ?? null;
-    const stream = options.stream ?? null;
-    const filemode = options.filemode ?? 'a';
-    const dateformat = options.filemode ?? null;
-    const style = options.filemode ?? '%';
-    const level = options.level ?? null;
-
-    if (!Object.keys(STYLES).includes(style)) {
-        throw new ValueError(
-            `style must be one of: ${Object.keys(STYLES).join(', ')}`
-        );
-    }
-
-    if (force) {
-        for (var i = 0; i < MANAGER.root.handlers.length; i += 1) {
-            let h: Handler = MANAGER.root.handlers[i];
-            MANAGER.root.removeHandler(h);
-            h.close();
-        }
-    }
-
-    if (handlers.length == 0) {
-        if (handlers === null && stream && filename) {
-            throw new ValueError(
-                "'stream' and 'filename' should not be specified together"
-            );
-        }
-
-        else if (stream || filename) {
-            throw new ValueError(
-                "'stream' or 'filename' should not be specified together" +
-                "with 'handlers'"
-            );
-        }
-
-        if (handlers === null) {
-            var h: Handler;
-
-            if (filename) {
-                if (filemode.match('b')) { errors = undefined }
-                else { encoding = 'utf-8' }
-
-                h = new FileHandler({
-                    filename: filename,
-                    filemode: filemode,
-                    'encoding': encoding,
-                    errors: errors
-                });
-            }
-
-            else { h = new StreamHandler(stream) }
-
-            handlers = [h];
-        }
-
-        for (var i = 0; i < handlers.length; i += 1) {
-            let h = handlers[i];
-
-            if (h.formatter === null) {
-                h.formatter = new Formatter({
-                    fmt: options.format ?? STYLES[style][1],
-                    datefmt: dateformat,
-                    style: style
-                });
-            }
-
-            MANAGER.root.addHandler(h);
-        }
-
-        if (level !== null) { MANAGER.root.setLevel(level) }
-
-        if (options) {
-            // runtime interface guard, please let me stay. 🥺
-            // the interface does not allow for additional members, but the
-            // runtime environment has no concept of interfaces. We can stick to
-            // the original implementation
-            const keys = Object.keys(options).join(', ');
-
-            throw new ValueError(`Unrecognised argument(s): ${keys}`);
-        }
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/log-level.ts b/src/log-level.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..23014ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/log-level.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+   Level related stuff
+  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  Default levels and level names, these can be replaced with any positive set
+  of values having corresponding names. There is a pseudo-level, NOTSET, which
+  is only really there as a lower limit for user-defined levels. Handlers and
+  loggers are initialized with NOTSET so that they will log all messages, even
+  at user-defined levels.
+*/
+
+export type LogLevel = number;
+
+/**
+ * An indication that something unexpected happened, or that a problem might
+ * occur in the near future (e.g. ‘disk space low’). The software is still
+ * working as expected.
+ */
+export const CRITICAL = 50;
+export const FATAL = CRITICAL;
+
+/**
+ * Due to a more serious problem, the software has not been able to perform some
+ * function.
+ */
+export const ERROR = 40;
+
+/**
+ * An indication that something unexpected happened, or that a problem might
+ * occur in the near future (e.g. ‘disk space low’). The software is still
+ * working as expected.
+ */
+export const WARNING = 30;
+export const WARN = WARNING;
+
+/**
+ * Confirmation that things are working as expected.
+ */
+export const INFO = 20;
+
+/**
+ * Detailed information, typically only of interest to a developer trying to
+ * diagnose a problem.
+ */
+export const DEBUG = 10;
+
+/**
+ * When set on a logger, indicates that ancestor loggers are to be consulted to
+ * determine the effective level. If that still resolves to NOTSET, then all
+ * events are logged. When set on a handler, all events are handled.
+ */
+export const NOTSET = 0;
+
+const LEVELTONAME: {[key: number]: string} = {
+    [CRITICAL]: 'CRITICAL',
+    [ERROR]: 'ERROR',
+    [WARNING]: 'WARNING',
+    [INFO]: 'INFO',
+    [DEBUG]: 'DEBUG',
+    [NOTSET]: 'NOTSET'
+}
+
+const NAMETOLEVEL: {[key: string]: number} = {
+    CRITICAL: CRITICAL,
+    ERROR: ERROR,
+    WARNING: WARNING,
+    INFO: INFO,
+    DEBUG: DEBUG,
+    NOTSET: NOTSET,
+}
+
+function getLevelNamesMapping() {
+    return Object.assign({}, NAMETOLEVEL);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Return the textual or numeric representation of logging level 'level'
+ *
+ * @param level
+ */
+export function getLevelName(level: string|number): string|number {
+    var result: string|number = LEVELTONAME[level as number];
+    if (result !== undefined) { return result }
+    result = NAMETOLEVEL[level as string];
+    if (result !== undefined) { return result }
+    return `Level ${level}`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Associate 'levelName' with 'level'
+ *
+ * @param level
+ * @param levelName
+ */
+export function addLevelName(level: number, levelName: string) {
+    LEVELTONAME[level] = levelName;
+    NAMETOLEVEL[levelName] = level;
+}
+
+export function checkLevel(level: number|string): number {
+    var rv: number;
+
+    if (typeof level == 'number') { rv = level }
+
+    else if (typeof level == 'string') {
+        if (!Object.keys(NAMETOLEVEL).includes(level as string)) {
+            throw new Error(`Unknown level: ${level}`)
+        }
+
+        rv = NAMETOLEVEL[level]
+    }
+
+    else {
+        throw new Error(`Level not a number or valid string: ${level}`)
+    }
+
+    return rv
+}
diff --git a/src/log-record.ts b/src/log-record.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c6f335
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/log-record.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+import { getLevelName, LogLevel } from './log-level';
+import { MillisecondsSinceUnixEpoch } from './helper/datetime';
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// The logging record
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * options for instantiating a new log record
+ */
+export interface LogRecordOptions {
+    /**
+     * The numeric level of the logging event (such as 10 for DEBUG, 20 for
+     * INFO, etc). Note that this is converted to two attributes of the
+     * LogRecord: levelno for the numeric value and levelname for the
+     * corresponding level name.
+     */
+    level: number,
+    file?: string,
+    /**
+     * The line number in the source file where the logging call was made.
+     */
+    lno?: number,
+    /**
+     * The event description message, which can be a %-format string with
+     * placeholders for variable data, or an arbitrary object (see Using
+     * arbitrary objects as messages).
+     */
+    msg: string,
+    /**
+     * Variable data to merge into the msg argument to obtain the event
+     * description.
+     */
+    args?: any[],
+}
+
+export type LogRecordFactory = { (name: string, options: LogRecordOptions): LogRecord };
+
+/**
+ * LogRecord instances are created every time something is logged. They contain
+ * all the information pertinent to  the event being logged. The main
+ * information parssed in is msg and args, which are combined using str(msg) %
+ * args to create the message field of the record. The record also includes
+ * information such as when the record was created, the source line where the
+ * logging call was made, and any exception information to be logged.
+ */
+export class LogRecord {
+    public readonly levelno: LogLevel;
+    public readonly levelname: string|LogLevel;
+    public readonly scope: string;
+
+    public readonly created: MillisecondsSinceUnixEpoch = Date.now();
+
+    constructor(scope: string, options: LogRecordOptions) {
+        this.levelno = options.level;
+        this.levelname = getLevelName(options.level);
+        this.scope = scope;
+    }
+}
+
+export var logRecordFactory = (scope: string, options: LogRecordOptions) => {
+    return new LogRecord(scope, options)
+};
+
+/**
+ * Define which class use when instantiating log records.
+ *
+ * @param factory - A callable which will be called to instantiate a log record.
+ *                  Pass a clojure, if your factory is a class already.
+ */
+export function setLogRecordFactory(factory: LogRecordFactory) {
+    logRecordFactory = factory
+}
+
+export function getLogRecordFactory(): LogRecordFactory {
+    return logRecordFactory
+}
diff --git a/src/logger.ts b/src/logger.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8cdff06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/logger.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,324 @@
+import {
+    LogLevel,
+    DEBUG,
+    NOTSET,
+    WARNING,
+    checkLevel,
+} from './log-level';
+import { 
+    LogRecord,
+    logRecordFactory,
+    LogRecordOptions,
+} from './log-record';
+import { Handler, StderrHandler } from './handler';
+import {
+    NotImplementedError,
+    KeyError,
+    ValueError,
+    StackTrace,
+} from './helper/error';
+import { Manager } from './manager';
+import { Filterer } from './filter';
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Logger classes and functions
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+export type ExecutionInfo = [string, Error, StackTrace];
+
+export var throwErrors: boolean = true;
+
+export const DEFAULT_LAST_RESORT = new StderrHandler(WARNING);
+
+export var lastResort = DEFAULT_LAST_RESORT;
+
+export type LoggerClass = { new(): Logger };
+
+/**
+ * context of a logging event/trigger
+ */
+export interface LogOptions{
+    /**
+     * 
+     */
+    excInfo: ExecutionInfo|Error|null,
+    /**
+     * 
+     */
+    extra: {[key: string]: any}|null,
+    /**
+     *
+     */
+    stackInfo: boolean,
+    /**
+     *
+     */
+    stackLevel: number
+}
+
+const DEFAULT_LOG_OPTIONS: LogOptions = Object.freeze({
+    excInfo: null,
+    extra: null,
+    stackInfo: false,
+    stackLevel: 1
+});
+
+/**
+ * Instances of the logger class represent a single logging channel. A 'logging
+ * channel' indicates an area of an application. Exactly how an 'area' is
+ * defined is up to the application developer. Since an application can have any
+ * number of areas, logging channels are identified by a unique string.
+ * Application areas can be nested (e.g. an area of input process might include
+ * sub-areas "read CSV file", "read XLS files" and "read Gnumeric files"). To
+ * cater for this natural nesting, channel ames are organized into a namespace
+ * hierarchy where levels are separated by periods, much like the Java or Python
+ * package namespace. So in the instance given above, channel names might be
+ * "input" for the upper level, and "input.csv", "input.xls" and "input.gnu" for
+ * the sub-levels.
+ * There is no arbitrary limit to the depth of nesting.
+ */
+export class Logger extends Filterer {
+    public readonly scope: string;
+    public _level: number;
+    private  _manager: Manager|null = null;
+    public readonly parent: Logger|null = null;
+    public readonly propagate: boolean = true;
+    public readonly handlers: Handler[] = [];
+    public readonly disabled: boolean = false;
+    private cache: {[key: number]: boolean} = {};
+
+    /**
+     * Initialize the logger with a name and an optional level
+     *
+     * @param scope - 
+     * @param level -
+     * @param manager -
+     */
+    constructor(
+        scope: string,
+        level?: LogLevel,
+    ) {
+        super();
+
+        this.scope = scope;
+        this._level = checkLevel(level ?? NOTSET);
+    }
+
+    public get level() { return this._level }
+
+    public set level(level: LogLevel) { this._level = checkLevel(level) }
+
+    public set manager(manager: Manager) {
+        if (this.manager) {
+            throw new ValueError('logger can only be assigned to manager once');
+        }
+    }
+
+    public setLevel(level: LogLevel) {
+        this.level = checkLevel(level);
+
+        //this.manager.clearCache()
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the effective level for this logger.
+     *
+     * Loop through this logger and its parents in the logger hierarchy, looking
+     * for a non-zero logging level. Return the first one found.
+     */
+    public getEffectiveLevel() {
+        var logger: Logger|null = this;
+
+        while (logger) {
+            if (logger.level) { return logger.level }
+            logger = logger.parent;
+        }
+
+        return NOTSET;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Is this logger enabled for level 'level'?
+     */
+    public isEnabledFor(level: LogLevel): boolean {
+        if (this.disabled) { return false }
+
+        if (this.cache[level] === undefined && this.manager && this.manager.disable < level) {
+            return this.cache[level] = (
+                level >= this.getEffectiveLevel()
+            );
+        }
+
+        return this.cache[level] = false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Log 'msg % args' with severity 'DEBUG'
+     *
+     * To pass exception information, use the keyword argument exc_info with
+     * a true value, e.g.
+     *
+     * ```
+     * logger.debug("Houston, we have a thorny problem", { exc_info: true })
+     * ```
+     */
+    public debug(msg: string, options?: LogOptions) {
+        if (this.isEnabledFor(DEBUG)) { this._log(DEBUG, msg, options) }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A factory method which can be overriden in subclasses to create
+     * specialized LogRecords.
+     *
+     * 
+     */
+    protected makeRecord(
+        name: string,
+        level: LogLevel,
+        msg: string,
+        options: LogOptions,
+    ): LogRecord {
+
+        var recordOptions: LogRecordOptions = {
+            level: level,
+            msg: msg,
+        };
+
+        var rv = logRecordFactory(name, recordOptions);
+
+        if (options.extra !== null) {
+            Object.entries(options.extra!).forEach((item) => {
+
+                var [k, v] = item;
+
+                if (['message', 'asctime'].includes(k as string) ||
+                    (rv as {[key: string]: any}).keys().includes(k as string)) {
+                    throw new KeyError('attempt to overwrite ${k} in LogRecord')
+                }
+
+                (rv as any)[k] = options.extra![k as string] as any
+            })
+        }
+
+        return rv
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Low-level logging routine which creates a LogRecord and then calls the
+     * handlers of this logger to handle the record.
+     */
+    protected _log(level: LogLevel, msg: string, options?: LogOptions) {
+        options = options ?? DEFAULT_LOG_OPTIONS;
+        options = { ...DEFAULT_LOG_OPTIONS, ...options };
+
+        var sinfo=null;
+
+        if (options!.excInfo !== null) {
+            if (options!.excInfo instanceof Error) {
+                var excInfo: ExecutionInfo = [
+                    typeof options!.excInfo,
+                    options!.excInfo,
+                    options!.excInfo.stack!
+                ]
+            }
+            else if (!(options!.excInfo instanceof Array)) {
+                throw new NotImplementedError("would try to get the callee stack from the system. Probably will use stacktrace.js as this needs to be implemented browser-specific.");
+            }
+        }
+
+        var record = this.makeRecord(this.scope, level, msg, options)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Call the handlers for the specified record.
+     *
+     * This method is used for unpickled records received from a socket, as well
+     * as those created locally. Logger-level filtering is applied.
+     */
+    protected handle(scope: string, record: LogRecord) {
+        if (this.disabled) { return }
+        var maybeRecord = this.filter(record);
+        if (!maybeRecord) { return }
+        if ((maybeRecord as any) instanceof LogRecord) { record = maybeRecord }
+        this.callHandlers(record)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Pass a record to all relevant handlers.
+     *
+     * Loop through all handlers for this logger and its parents n the logger
+     * hierarchy. If no handler was found, output a one-off error message to
+     * sys.stderr. Stop searching up the hierarchy whenever a logger with the
+     * "propagate" attribute set to zero is found - that will be the last logger
+     * whose handlers are called.
+     */
+    protected callHandlers(record: LogRecord) {
+        var c: Logger|null = this;
+        var found = 0;
+
+        while (c) {
+            for (var i = 0; i < c.handlers.length; i += 1) {
+                let hdlr = c.handlers[i];
+
+                found = found + 1;
+
+                if (record.levelno >= hdlr.level) { hdlr.handle(record) }
+            }
+
+            if (!c.propagate) { c = null }
+            else { c = c.parent }
+        }
+
+        if (found == 0) {
+            if (lastResort) {
+                if (record.levelno >= lastResort.level) {
+                    lastResort.handle(record)
+                }
+                else if (throwErrors && (this.manager && !this.manager.emittedNoHandlerWarning)) {
+                    console.error(
+                        `No handlers could be found for logger ${this.scope}`
+                    );
+
+                    this.manager.emittedNoHandlerWarning = true;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public clear() {
+        for (var property in this.cache) delete this.cache[property];
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Remove the specified handler from this logger.
+     */
+    public addHandler(hdlr: Handler) {
+        const i = this.handlers.indexOf(hdlr); 
+        if (i === -1) { this.handlers.push(hdlr) }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Remove the specified handler from this logger.
+     */
+    public removeHandler(hdlr: Handler) {
+        const i = this.handlers.indexOf(hdlr); 
+        if (i !== -1) { delete this.handlers[i] }
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * A root logger is not that different to any other logger, except that it must
+ * have a logging level and there is only one instance of in a manager's
+ * hierarchy.
+ */
+export class RootLogger extends Logger {
+
+    constructor(level: LogLevel) {
+        super('root', level);
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * root logger (singleton)
+ */
+export const ROOT = new RootLogger(WARNING);
diff --git a/src/manager.ts b/src/manager.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c891849
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/manager.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+import { 
+    Logger,
+    LoggerClass,
+    RootLogger,
+    ROOT,
+} from './logger';
+import { LogRecordFactory } from './log-record';
+import {
+    LogLevel,
+    NOTSET,
+    checkLevel,
+} from './log-level'
+
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Manager classes and functions
+//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+var loggerClass = Logger;
+
+/**
+ * Placeholder instance
+ */
+class Placeholder {
+    protected loggers: Logger[] = [];
+
+    /**
+     * initialize with the specified logger being a child of this placeholder.
+     */
+    constructor(logger: Logger) { this.push(logger) }
+
+    /**
+     * add the specified logger as a child of this placeholder
+     */
+    public push(logger: Logger) {
+        if (!this.loggers.includes(logger)) { this.loggers.push(logger) }
+    }
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * There is [under normal circumstances] just one Manager intance, which holds
+ * the hierarchy of loggers.
+ */
+export class Manager {
+    public readonly root: RootLogger;
+    protected _disable: number = 0;
+    public emittedNoHandlerWarning: boolean = false;
+    protected loggers: {[key: string]: Logger} = {};
+    protected _loggerClass: LoggerClass|null = null;
+    protected _logRecordFactory: LogRecordFactory|null = null;
+
+    public get disable(): number { return this._disable }
+
+    public set disable(level: LogLevel) { this._disable = checkLevel(level) }
+
+    /**
+     * Initialize the manager with the root node of the logger hierarchy
+     */
+    constructor(root: RootLogger) {
+        this.root = root;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get a logger with the specified name (scope name), creating it, if it
+     * does not yet exist. This name is a dot-separated hierarchical name, such
+     * as "a", "a.b", "a.b.c" or similar.
+     *
+     * If a PlaceHolder existed for the specified name [i.e. the logger didn't
+     * exist but a child of it did], replace it with the created logger and fix
+     * up the parent/child references which pointed to the placeholder to now
+     * point to the logger.
+     */
+    getLogger(scope: string) {
+        var rv: null|Logger = null;
+
+        if (typeof scope != 'string') {
+
+            rv = this.loggers[scope];
+
+            if (rv instanceof Placeholder) {
+                var ph = rv;
+                rv = new (this._loggerClass ?? loggerClass)(scope, NOTSET);
+            }
+            else {
+                rv = new (this._loggerClass ?? loggerClass)(scope, NOTSET);
+                this.loggers[scope] = rv;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Set the class to be used when instantiating a logger with this Manager.
+     */
+    set loggerClass(class_: LoggerClass) {
+        if (class_ !== Logger) {
+            if (!(class_.prototype instanceof Logger)) {
+                throw new TypeError("logger not derived from logging.Logger: ")
+            }
+        }
+
+        this._loggerClass = class_;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Set the factory to be used when instantiating a log record with this
+     * Manager.
+     */
+    set logRecordFactory(factory: LogRecordFactory) {
+        this._logRecordFactory = factory;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * clear the cache for all loggers in loggerDict
+     */
+    public clear() {
+        Object.values(this.loggers).forEach((logger) => {
+            logger.clear()
+        });
+    }
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * log manager (singleton)
+ */
+export const MANAGER = new Manager(ROOT);
diff --git a/src/polyfill/regexp.ts b/src/polyfill/regexp.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ca50ad4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/polyfill/regexp.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/**
+ * Polyfill for `RegExp.escape`, ensuring compatibility with environments
+ * that do not yet support this method.
+ *
+ * @see src/types/regexp.d.ts For the TypeScript type declaration.
+ */
+if (!RegExp.escape) {
+    RegExp.escape = function (str: string): string {
+        return str.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&');
+    };
+}
diff --git a/src/types/regexp.d.ts b/src/types/regexp.d.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4274c95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/types/regexp.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+interface RegExpConstructor {
+    /**
+     * @see
+     * {@link https://tc39.es/proposal-regex-escaping/#sec-regexp.escape
+     * | ECMAScript Stage 4 Draft}
+     */
+    escape?(str: string): string;
+}
diff --git a/src/util/regexp.ts b/src/util/regexp.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c01f820
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/util/regexp.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+export type SubstitutionCallable = (match: RegExpExecArray|null) => string;
+
+
+/**
+ * Return the string obtained by replacing the leftmost non-overlapping
+ * occurrences of the pattern in `input` by the `substitution`. `substitution`
+ * can be either a string or a callable; if a string, backslash escapes in it
+ * are processed. If it is a callable, it's passed the `RegExpExecArray` object
+ * and must return a substitution string to be used.
+ */
+export function substitute(
+    pattern: RegExp,
+    input: string,
+    substitution: string|SubstitutionCallable,
+): string {
+    return input.replace(pattern, (match, ...groups) => {
+        const execArray = pattern.exec(match);
+
+        if (typeof substitution === "function") return substitution(execArray);
+
+        return substitution.replace(
+            /\\(\d+)/g,
+            (_, index) => execArray?.[Number(index)] ?? ''
+        );
+    });
+}
diff --git a/src/util/string.ts b/src/util/string.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e17209
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/util/string.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+/**
+ * TODO: Monitor ECMAScript Stage 4 Draft adoption.
+ * Once officially standardized, remove the polyfill.
+ *
+ * @see src/types/regexp.d.ts for more information.
+ */
+import '../polyfill/regexp';
+
+/**
+ * Constants used for ctype-style character classification.
+ *
+ * Includes:
+ * - `WHITESPACE`: Common whitespace characters.
+ * - `ASCII_LOWERCASE`: Lowercase ASCII letters.
+ * - `ASCII_UPPERCASE`: Uppercase ASCII letters.
+ * - `ASCII_LETTERS`: Combined uppercase and lowercase letters.
+ * - `DIGITS`: Numeric digits (0-9).
+ * - `HEXDIGITS`: Hexadecimal digits (0-9, a-f, A-F).
+ * - `OCTDIGITS`: Octal digits (0-7).
+ * - `PUNCTUATION`: A regex pattern for common punctuation characters.
+ * - `PRINTABLE`: All printable ASCII characters.
+ */
+export const WHITESPACE = ' \t\n\r\v\f';
+export const ASCII_LOWERCASE = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';
+export const ASCII_UPPERCASE = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
+export const ASCII_LETTERS = ASCII_LOWERCASE + ASCII_UPPERCASE;
+export const DIGITS = '0123456789';
+export const HEXDIGITS = DIGITS + 'abcdef' + 'abcdef';
+export const OCTDIGITS = '01234567';
+export const PUNCTUATION = new RegExp("!\"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[]^_`{|}~");
+export const PRINTABLE = DIGITS + ASCII_LETTERS + PUNCTUATION + WHITESPACE;
+
+
+export interface TemplateOptions {
+    /**
+     * @remarks
+     * overrides of the default template options must ensure the delimiter is
+     * escaped through the `RegExp.escape` method. This is due to performance
+     * reasons as to not require escaping on every `Template` construction.
+     */
+    delimiter: string,
+    /**
+     * TODO: write block comment
+     */
+    bracedIdPattern?: string
+    /**
+     * @see
+     * {@link https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/text-processing.html#sec-regexp-constructor}
+     */
+    flags: string
+}
+
+
+export const DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_OPTIONS: TemplateOptions = {
+    delimiter: RegExp.escape!('$'),
+    flags: 'i',
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * A string class for supporting $-substitutions
+ */
+export class Template {
+    /**
+     * '[a-z]' matches to non-ASCII letters when used with IGNORECASE, but
+     * without the ASCII flag. We can't add re.ASCII to flags because of
+     * backward compatibility. So we use the ?a local flag and [a-z] pattern.
+     * See https://bugs.python.org/issue31672
+     */
+    protected static idPattern: string = '[_a-z][_a-z0-9]*';
+    protected readonly pattern: RegExp;
+    protected readonly template: string;
+
+    static createPattern(
+        delimiter: string,
+        bracedIdPattern?: string,
+    ): string {
+        var pattern: string;
+        pattern  = `${delimiter}(?:`;
+        pattern +=     `(?<escaped>${delimiter})`;
+        pattern +=     `|(?<named>${Template.idPattern})`;
+        pattern +=     `|{{(?<braced>${bracedIdPattern ?? Template.idPattern})}}`;
+        pattern +=     '|(?<invalid>)';
+        pattern += ')';
+
+        return pattern;
+    }
+
+    constructor(template: string, options?: TemplateOptions) {
+        options = options ?? DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_OPTIONS;
+
+        this.template = template;
+
+        this.pattern = new RegExp(
+            Template.createPattern(options.delimiter, options.bracedIdPattern),
+            options.flags
+        );
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/tests/log-level.test.ts b/tests/log-level.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2a7d386
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/log-level.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+import {expect, jest, test} from '@jest/globals';
+import * as log_level from '../src/log-level';
+
+describe('Logger', () => {
+    it('can be instantiated', () => {
+        //const logger = new log_level.Logger('test', 0);
+    })
+});
+
+describe('getLevelName', () => {
+    it('numeric to textual representation of built-ins', () => {
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName(log_level.CRITICAL)
+        ).toBe('CRITICAL');
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName(log_level.FATAL)
+        ).toBe('CRITICAL');
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName(log_level.ERROR)
+        ).toBe('ERROR');
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName(log_level.WARNING)
+        ).toBe('WARNING');
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName(log_level.WARN)
+        ).toBe('WARNING');
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName(log_level.INFO)
+        ).toBe('INFO');
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName(log_level.DEBUG)
+        ).toBe('DEBUG');
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName(log_level.NOTSET)
+        ).toBe('NOTSET');
+    });
+
+    it('textual to numeric representation of built-ins', () => {
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName('CRITICAL')
+        ).toBe(log_level.CRITICAL);
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName('FATAL')
+        ).toBe(`Level FATAL`);
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName('ERROR')
+        ).toBe(log_level.ERROR);
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName('WARNING')
+        ).toBe(log_level.WARNING);
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName('WARN')
+        ).toBe('Level WARN');
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName('INFO')
+        ).toBe(log_level.INFO);
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName('DEBUG')
+        ).toBe(log_level.DEBUG);
+        expect(
+            log_level.getLevelName('NOTSET')
+        ).toBe(log_level.NOTSET);
+    });
+});
+
+
+describe('addLevelName', () => {
+    it('numeric to textual representation of built-ins', () => {
+        log_level.addLevelName(80, 'FOOBAR');
+        expect(log_level.getLevelName(80)).toBe('FOOBAR');
+        expect(log_level.getLevelName('FOOBAR')).toBe(80);
+    })
+});
diff --git a/tests/test.ts b/tests/test.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 208acdc..0000000
--- a/tests/test.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-import {expect, jest, test} from '@jest/globals';
-
-describe('Logger', () => {
-    it('can be instantiated', () => {
-        //const logger = new logging.Logger('test', 0);
-    })
-});
-
-describe('getLevelName', () => {
-    var logging: any;
-
-    beforeEach(() => {
-        // there are a couple of singletons, which I'm not yet sure if they need
-        // to be reloaded for every test case
-        logging = require('../src');
-    });
-
-    it('numeric to textual representation of built-ins', () => {
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName(logging.CRITICAL)
-        ).toBe('CRITICAL');
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName(logging.FATAL)
-        ).toBe('CRITICAL');
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName(logging.ERROR)
-        ).toBe('ERROR');
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName(logging.WARNING)
-        ).toBe('WARNING');
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName(logging.WARN)
-        ).toBe('WARNING');
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName(logging.INFO)
-        ).toBe('INFO');
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName(logging.DEBUG)
-        ).toBe('DEBUG');
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName(logging.NOTSET)
-        ).toBe('NOTSET');
-    });
-
-    it('textual to numeric representation of built-ins', () => {
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName('CRITICAL')
-        ).toBe(logging.CRITICAL);
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName('FATAL')
-        ).toBe(`Level FATAL`);
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName('ERROR')
-        ).toBe(logging.ERROR);
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName('WARNING')
-        ).toBe(logging.WARNING);
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName('WARN')
-        ).toBe('Level WARN');
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName('INFO')
-        ).toBe(logging.INFO);
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName('DEBUG')
-        ).toBe(logging.DEBUG);
-        expect(
-            logging.getLevelName('NOTSET')
-        ).toBe(logging.NOTSET);
-    });
-});
-
-
-describe('addLevelName', () => {
-    var logging: any;
-
-    beforeEach(() => {
-        logging = require('../src');
-    });
-
-    it('numeric to textual representation of built-ins', () => {
-        logging.addLevelName(80, 'FOOBAR');
-        expect(logging.getLevelName(80)).toBe('FOOBAR');
-        expect(logging.getLevelName('FOOBAR')).toBe(80);
-    })
-});
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 700b8f0..e3c3f14 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
         "lib": ["esnext.weakref", "dom"]
     },
     "include": [
-        "src/**/*.ts"
+        "src/**/*.ts",
+        "src/types/**/*.d.ts"
     ]
 }