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TypeError: appender is not a function #746

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The order in which the appenders are defined seems very important. This gives some strange results:

This sample:

const log4js = require('log4js');
log4js.configure({
  appenders: {
     filteredConsole: { type: 'logLevelFilter', appender: 'console', level: 'info' },
     console: { type: 'stdout' }
  },
  categories: {
    default: { appenders: ['filteredConsole'], level: 'trace' }
  }
});
log4js.getLogger('demo').info('test');

Results in error: TypeError: appender is not a function.

A solution would be to sort the appenders topologically. We could use something like toposort

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