nanocolors

What is nanocolors?

Nanocolors is a tiny and fast library for coloring terminal output. It provides a simple API to style text with various colors and effects, making it easier to create visually appealing command-line interfaces.

What are nanocolors's main functionalities?

Basic Colors

Nanocolors allows you to easily apply basic colors to your text output in the terminal. The example demonstrates how to use red, green, and blue colors.

const { red, green, blue } = require('nanocolors');
console.log(red('This is red text'));
console.log(green('This is green text'));
console.log(blue('This is blue text'));

Text Effects

In addition to colors, Nanocolors supports various text effects such as bold, underline, and italic. The example shows how to apply these effects to your text.

const { bold, underline, italic } = require('nanocolors');
console.log(bold('This is bold text'));
console.log(underline('This is underlined text'));
console.log(italic('This is italic text'));

Combining Colors and Effects

Nanocolors allows you to combine colors and text effects to create more complex styles. The example demonstrates combining red with bold and green with underline.

const { red, bold, underline } = require('nanocolors');
console.log(red(bold('This is bold and red text')));
console.log(underline(green('This is underlined and green text')));

Other packages similar to nanocolors

chalk

Chalk is a popular library for styling terminal output. It offers a rich API for applying colors and text effects. Compared to Nanocolors, Chalk has a larger footprint but provides more features and customization options.

colors

Colors is another library for adding color and style to terminal output. It is similar to Nanocolors in terms of functionality but is slightly larger in size. Colors also provides a more extensive set of features.

cli-color

CLI-Color is a library for styling terminal output with colors and effects. It is comparable to Nanocolors in terms of performance and size, but offers a different API and additional features like progress bars and tables.

README

Nano Colors

A tiny and fast Node.js library to ANSI colors to terminal output.

Started as a fork of @jorgebucaran’s colorette with hacks from @lukeed’s kleur. See changes between Nano Colors and colorette.

• It is 4 times faster than chalk for simple use cases.
• No dependencies. It takes 5 times less space in node_modules than chalk.
• Actively maintained. Used in many big projects like PostCSS or Browserslist.
• Auto-detects color support. You can also toggle color mode manually.
• Tree-shakable. We use a dual ESM/CJS package.
• Supports Node.js ≥ 6 and universal Node.js/browser projects.

import { green, bold } from 'nanocolors'

console.log(
  green(`Task ${bold('1')} was finished`)
)

Docs

Read full docs on GitHub.

Changelog

0.2.9

• Improved performance in rare edge cases.