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chalk
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Terminal string styling done right. Created because the `colors` module does some really horrible things.
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Package description
The chalk npm package is a popular library for styling and coloring text in the terminal. It provides an easy-to-use API for applying various text styles, such as color, background color, bold, underline, and more, to console output in Node.js applications.
Text color
Change the color of the text. In this example, the text 'Hello world!' will be printed in blue.
console.log(chalk.blue('Hello world!'));
Background color
Change the background color of the text. Here, 'Hello world!' will have a red background.
console.log(chalk.bgRed('Hello world!'));
Text styles
Apply text styles such as bold, italic, underline, etc. This code sample makes the text 'Hello world!' bold.
console.log(chalk.bold('Hello world!'));
Combining styles
Combine multiple styles together. The text 'Hello world!' will be bold with blue text and a red background.
console.log(chalk.blue.bgRed.bold('Hello world!'));
Composing multiple styles
Create reusable composed style functions. This creates an 'error' style that is bold and red, which can be used to print error messages.
const error = chalk.bold.red; console.log(error('Error!'));
Template literals
Use tagged template literals for styling. This allows for more readable code when applying multiple styles.
console.log(chalk`{blue.bold Hello} {red world!}`);
The 'colors' package is similar to chalk and allows for coloring and styling terminal output. Unlike chalk, 'colors' extends String.prototype to add color and style methods directly to strings, which some may find less clean than chalk's functional approach.
The 'cli-color' package provides similar functionality to chalk with a focus on performance. It offers a chainable API and additional features like column alignment and line width control, but it might be more complex to use than chalk.
The 'ansi-styles' package is a lower-level library that chalk itself uses. It provides ANSI escape codes for styling text in the terminal. It's more manual and less user-friendly than chalk but offers more control for those who need it.
While 'ink' is not a direct alternative to chalk, it is a React-based rendering library for interactive command-line apps that includes its own system for styling text. It's more powerful for building full CLI applications but is overkill for simple text styling.
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Terminal string styling done right
colors.js is currently the most popular string styling module, but it has serious deficiencies like extending String.prototype which causes all kinds of problems. Although there are other ones, they either do too much or not enough.
Chalk is a clean and focused alternative.
Install with npm: npm install --save chalk
Chalk comes with an easy to use composable API where you just chain and nest the styles you want.
var chalk = require('chalk');
// style a string
console.log( chalk.blue('Hello world!') );
// combine styled and normal strings
console.log( chalk.blue('Hello'), 'World' + chalk.red('!') );
// compose multiple styles using the chainable API
console.log( chalk.blue.bgRed.bold('Hello world!') );
// nest styles
console.log( chalk.red('Hello', chalk.underline.bgBlue('world') + '!') );
// pass in multiple arguments
console.log( chalk.blue('Hello', 'World!', 'Foo', 'bar', 'biz', 'baz') );
You can easily define your own themes.
var chalk = require('chalk');
var error = chalk.bold.red;
console.log(error('Error!'));
<style>[.<style>...](string, [string...])
Example: chalk.red.bold.underline('Hello', 'world');
Chain styles and call the last one as a method with a string argument. Order doesn't matter.
Multiple arguments will be separated by space.
Color support is automatically detected, but you can override it.
Detect whether the terminal supports color.
Can be overridden by the user with the flags --color
and --no-color
.
Used internally and handled for you, but exposed for convenience.
Exposes the styles as ANSI escape codes.
Generally not useful, but you might need just the .open
or .close
escape code if you're mixing externally styled strings with yours.
var chalk = require('chalk');
console.log(chalk.styles.red);
//=> {open: '\x1b[31m', close: '\x1b[39m'}
console.log(chalk.styles.red.open + 'Hello' + chalk.styles.red.close);
Strip color from a string.
Can be useful in combination with .supportsColor
to strip color on externally styled text when it's not supported.
Example:
var chalk = require('chalk');
var styledString = fromExternal();
if (!chalk.supportsColor) {
chalk.stripColor(styledString);
}
MIT © Sindre Sorhus
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Terminal string styling done right
The npm package chalk receives a total of 232,401,593 weekly downloads. As such, chalk popularity was classified as popular.
We found that chalk demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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