Trying to get winston to log into home path with a ~

winston.test.js

// winston.version === '2.2.0'
var winston = require("winston")
var fs = require("fs")
var path = require("path")

function tryLog(filename, msg) {
    var logger = new winston.Logger()
    logger.add(winston.transports.File, {
        filename: filename,
        level : 'verbose',
        handleExceptions: true
    })
    var fileTransport = logger.transports.file
    var fullpath = path.join(fileTransport.dirname, fileTransport._getFile())

    logger.on('error', console.error.bind(console, 'logger:'))
    fileTransport.on('error', console.error.bind(console, 'logger.transports.file:'))

    logger.verbose(msg)

    setTimeout(() => {
        try {
            var text = fs.readFileSync(fullpath, 'utf8')
            console.log(text)
        } catch(e) {
            console.log(msg, e.message)
        }
    }, 200)
}

tryLog('~/.mylog.log', 'I dont log because')
tryLog('.mylog.log', 'I log')

[mat@vm test]$ node winston.test.js
logger.transports.file: { [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '~/.mylog.log']
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'open',
  path: '~/.mylog.log' }
I dont log because ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '~/.mylog.log'
{"level":"verbose","message":"I log","timestamp":"2016-09-24T18:25:02.950Z"}