Maintenance: remove createTracer & createLogger helpers

[dreamorosi]

Summary

As part of this issue we will remove the two helper functions found in Tracer and Logger. These two helpers allow to create a new instance of their respective Powertools utilities, i.e. createTracer() returns an instance of Tracer.

The existence of these functions was undocumented and never mentioned anywhere outside the tests, however if there are customers who are using these helpers can simply switch to instantiating the utilities directly:

-- const logger = createLogger();
++ const logger = new Logger();

Why is this needed?

We have decided to remove these helpers because over the past two years we haven't seen any usage. Likewise, while the helpers are available only for Logger and Tracer, we haven't seen demand for adding them to other utilities.

Removing these helpers will also decrease the code shipped.

Which area does this relate to?

Tracer, Logger

Solution

No response

Acknowledgment

• This request meets Powertools for AWS Lambda (TypeScript) Tenets
• Should this be considered in other Powertools for AWS Lambda languages? i.e. Python, Java, and .NET

Future readers

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[dreamorosi]

This is available in preview starting from the 2.0.0-alpha.0 release. You can install this version using the next tag, i.e. npm i @aws-lambda-powertools/logger@next.