ansis

ANSI Styling

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Colorize terminal with ANSI colors & styles, smaller and faster alternative to Chalk.

🚀 Install and Quick Start

📖 Read full docs on GitHub

Usage

import ansis, { red, green, black, ansi256, hex } from 'ansis';

ansis.cyan('path/to/file')
green('Succeful!')
red`Error!`
black.bgYellow`Warning!`
ansi256(214)`Orange`
hex('#E0115F').bold.underline('TrueColor')

🏆 Compare & Benchmark

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💡 Highlights

• Supports ESM, CommonJS, TypeScript, Bun, Deno, Next.JS
• Standard API, drop-in replacement for Chalk
• Default and named import: import ansis, { red, bold, hex } from 'ansis'
• Chained syntax: red.bold.underline('text')
• Nested template strings: red`RED ${green`GREEN`} RED`
• ANSI styles: dim bold italic underline strikethrough
• ANSI 16 colors: red`Error!` redBright`Error!` bgRed`Error!` bgRedBright`Error!`
• ANSI 256 colors: fg(56)`violet` bg(208)`orange`
• TrueColor: rgb(224, 17, 95)`Ruby` hex('#96C')`Amethyst`
• Color fallback: TrueColor → 256 colors → 16 colors → no colors
• Raw ANSI codes: `foo ${red.open}red{red.close} bar`
• Strip ANSI codes: ansis.strip()
• Detect color support: ansis.isSupported()
• Supports CLI: NO_COLOR FORCE_COLOR --no-color --color
• Correct style break at the end of line when used \n
• Doesn't extend String.prototype
• Zero dependencies

Changelog

3.2.1 (2024-07-12)

• chore: reduce unpacked size by ~ 1 KB
• docs: optimize README for NPM