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The supports-color npm package is used to detect whether a terminal supports color and, if so, which kinds of color. It can be used to tailor output to the terminal's capabilities, avoiding the use of color when it's not supported and enabling it when possible. This can help improve the readability and aesthetics of command-line tool output.
Detecting Color Support
This feature allows you to check if the terminal supports color, and if so, what level of color support it has (basic colors, 256 colors, or 16 million colors).
const supportsColor = require('supports-color');
if (supportsColor.stdout) {
console.log('Terminal stdout supports color');
}
if (supportsColor.stdout.has256) {
console.log('Terminal stdout supports 256 colors');
}
if (supportsColor.stderr.has16m) {
console.log('Terminal stderr supports 16 million colors (truecolor)');
}
Forcing Color Support
This feature allows you to force color support in the terminal. This can be useful for testing or when running in environments where color support is not detected correctly.
const supportsColor = require('supports-color');
process.env.FORCE_COLOR = '1';
supportsColor.stdout.level = 1;
console.log('Forced color support level to basic colors');
Chalk is a popular npm package that allows you to style and colorize text in the terminal. It is more feature-rich than supports-color, providing an easy-to-use API for applying styles, but it also uses supports-color internally to determine color support.
ansi-colors is another npm package for coloring terminal text. It focuses on being lightweight and has no dependencies. It offers a similar API to chalk but does not have the same level of abstraction or convenience methods.
cli-color is an npm package that provides a function-based API for styling terminal text. It offers color support detection as well as a wide range of text formatting options. It is more comprehensive than supports-color but also more complex to use.
Detect whether a terminal supports color
$ npm install supports-color
const supportsColor = require('supports-color');
if (supportsColor.stdout) {
console.log('Terminal stdout supports color');
}
if (supportsColor.stdout.has256) {
console.log('Terminal stdout supports 256 colors');
}
if (supportsColor.stderr.has16m) {
console.log('Terminal stderr supports 16 million colors (truecolor)');
}
Returns an Object
with a stdout
and stderr
property for testing either streams. Each property is an Object
, or false
if color is not supported.
The stdout
/stderr
objects specifies a level of support for color through a .level
property and a corresponding flag:
.level = 1
and .hasBasic = true
: Basic color support (16 colors).level = 2
and .has256 = true
: 256 color support.level = 3
and .has16m = true
: Truecolor support (16 million colors)It obeys the --color
and --no-color
CLI flags.
Can be overridden by the user with the flags --color
and --no-color
. For situations where using --color
is not possible, add the environment variable FORCE_COLOR=1
to forcefully enable color or FORCE_COLOR=0
to forcefully disable. The use of FORCE_COLOR
overrides all other color support checks.
Explicit 256/Truecolor mode can be enabled using the --color=256
and --color=16m
flags, respectively.
MIT
FAQs
Detect whether a terminal supports color
The npm package supports-color receives a total of 323,817,269 weekly downloads. As such, supports-color popularity was classified as popular.
We found that supports-color 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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