colors
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Package description
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.
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 textBackground 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 backgroundText 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 textChaining 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 textCustom 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 textChalk 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 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 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
npm install colors
var colors = require('./colors');
console.log('hello'.green); // outputs green text
console.log('i like cake and pies'.underline.red) // outputs red underlined text
console.log('inverse the color'.inverse); // inverses the color
console.log('OMG Rainbows!'.rainbow); // rainbow (ignores spaces)
var colors = require('colors');
colors.setTheme({
silly: 'rainbow',
input: 'grey',
verbose: 'cyan',
prompt: 'grey',
info: 'green',
data: 'grey',
help: 'cyan',
warn: 'yellow',
debug: 'blue',
error: 'red'
});
// outputs red text
console.log("this is an error".error);
// outputs yellow text
console.log("this is a warning".warn);
Marak (Marak Squires) Alexis Sellier (cloudhead) mmalecki (Maciej Małecki) nicoreed (Nico Reed) morganrallen (Morgan Allen) JustinCampbell (Justin Campbell) ded (Dustin Diaz)
FAQs
get colors in your node.js console
The npm package colors receives a total of 12,965,758 weekly downloads. As such, colors popularity was classified as popular.
We found that colors demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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