colors

What is colors?

The 'colors' npm package is used to add color and style to text in the Node.js console. It allows developers to easily format their console output by adding colors, background colors, and styles such as bold or underline to their text.

What are colors's main functionalities?

Text colors

This feature allows you to change the color of the text. You can use predefined color names to set the text color.

console.log('hello'.green); // Outputs green text

Background colors

Similar to text colors, this feature allows you to set the background color of the text using predefined color names.

console.log('hello'.bgGreen); // Outputs text with a green background

Text styles

This feature allows you to apply different styles to your text, such as making it bold, underlined, or dim.

console.log('hello'.bold); // Outputs bold text

Chaining multiple styles

You can chain multiple styles together to apply several formats to your text at once.

console.log('hello'.green.underline.bold); // Outputs green, underlined, bold text

Custom themes

You can define custom themes to create a combination of styles that can be reused throughout your application.

colors.setTheme({ custom: ['red', 'underline'] }); console.log('hello'.custom); // Outputs red underlined text

Other packages similar to colors

chalk

Chalk is a popular npm package similar to colors. It provides a chainable API and has a cleaner syntax. Chalk is also known for being more performant and not extending String.prototype, which is considered a good practice.

cli-color

cli-color is another package that offers similar functionality to colors. It provides a rich set of features for coloring and formatting terminal text. Unlike colors, cli-color does not modify the String prototype and is more modular.

ansi-colors

ansi-colors is a lightweight alternative to colors that focuses on speed and avoiding the use of prototypes. It offers a simple API for styling terminal text using ANSI escape codes.

README

colors.js - get color and style in your node.js console like what

   var sys = require('sys');
   var colors = require('./colors');

   sys.puts('hello'.green); // outputs green text
   sys.puts('i like cake and pies'.underline.red) // outputs red underlined text
   sys.puts('inverse the color'.inverse); // inverses the color
   sys.puts('OMG Rainbows!'.rainbow); // rainbow (ignores spaces)
   

colors and styles!

- bold - italic - underline - inverse - yellow - cyan - white - magenta - green - red - grey - blue

Authors

Alexis Sellier (cloudhead) , Marak Squires , Justin Campbell, Dustin Diaz (@ded)