picocolors
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Package description
The picocolors npm package is a minimalistic library for coloring terminal text. It provides a simple and efficient way to add color to console output in Node.js applications. The package is designed to be lightweight and fast, making it an excellent choice for projects that require colored output without the overhead of more feature-rich libraries.
Text coloring
This feature allows you to color text output in the terminal. The example demonstrates how to make text appear red.
"const pico = require('picocolors');\nconsole.log(pico.red('This text is red'));"Text styling
This feature enables you to apply styles such as bolding to your text output. The example shows how to make text bold.
"const pico = require('picocolors');\nconsole.log(pico.bold('This text is bold'));"Background coloring
With this feature, you can set the background color of your text output. The example illustrates setting a green background for the text.
"const pico = require('picocolors');\nconsole.log(pico.bgGreen('This text has a green background'));"Chalk is a popular npm package for coloring and styling terminal output. It offers a more extensive API compared to picocolors, including chainable and composable styles. However, picocolors focuses on being lightweight and fast, making it a better choice for minimalistic needs or performance-critical applications.
ansi-colors is another library for styling terminal text. It is similar to picocolors in its focus on performance and a minimalistic API. However, ansi-colors provides a slightly different API design and additional features for styling text, which might make it a preferable choice depending on the developer's needs.
Kleur is a lightweight terminal color library with a focus on performance, similar to picocolors. It offers a simple API for coloring text but does not include some of the more advanced styling capabilities found in chalk. Kleur and picocolors are both excellent choices for projects that prioritize speed and simplicity.
Readme
npm install picocolors
A tinier and faster alternative to nanocolors. Andrey, are you even trying?
import { green, italic } from "picocolors";
console.log(green(`How are ${italic(`you`)} doing?`));
chalkNO_COLOR friendlyString.prototype modificationsnode_modules footprintCredits go to the following projects:
nanocolors benchmark:
./test/size.js
Data from packagephobia.com
chalk 101 kB
cli-color 1249 kB
ansi-colors 25 kB
kleur 21 kB
colorette 16 kB
nanocolors 16 kB
+picocolors 8 kB
$ ./test/complex-benchmark.js
chalk 2,618,824 ops/sec
cli-color 326,445 ops/sec
ansi-colors 1,057,188 ops/sec
kleur 2,543,659 ops/sec
kleur/colors 2,841,679 ops/sec
colorette 3,219,038 ops/sec
nanocolors 3,672,600 ops/sec
+picocolors 6,079,950 ops/sec
colorette benchmark:
$ npm start
+picocolors × 1,203,773 ops/sec
chalk × 474,359 ops/sec
kleur × 482,915 ops/sec
colors × 233,138 ops/sec
colorette × 657,896 ops/sec
nanocolors × 660,817 ops/sec
ansi-colors × 290,986 ops/sec
Just replace imports
-import { green, italic } from 'nanocolors';
+import { green, italic } from 'picocolors';
FAQs
The tiniest and the fastest library for terminal output formatting with ANSI colors
The npm package picocolors receives a total of 42,682,016 weekly downloads. As such, picocolors popularity was classified as popular.
We found that picocolors demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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