terminal-kit

What is terminal-kit?

The terminal-kit npm package provides a comprehensive set of tools for creating rich terminal applications. It offers functionalities for handling terminal input and output, creating interactive user interfaces, and managing terminal capabilities.

What are terminal-kit's main functionalities?

Terminal Output

This feature allows you to output text to the terminal. The code sample demonstrates how to print 'Hello, world!' to the terminal using terminal-kit.

const term = require('terminal-kit').terminal;
term('Hello, world!\n');

Interactive Menus

This feature allows you to create interactive menus. The code sample shows how to create a single-column menu with three options and handle the user's selection.

const term = require('terminal-kit').terminal;
term.singleColumnMenu(['Option 1', 'Option 2', 'Option 3'], function(error, response) {
  term('
').eraseLineAfter.green('You selected: %s
', response.selectedText);
});

Text Input

This feature allows you to capture text input from the user. The code sample demonstrates how to prompt the user to enter their name and then display it.

const term = require('terminal-kit').terminal;
term('Enter your name: ');
term.inputField(function(error, input) {
  term.green('
Your name is: %s
', input);
});

Progress Bars

This feature allows you to create and manage progress bars. The code sample shows how to create a progress bar that updates every 100 milliseconds until it reaches 100%.

const term = require('terminal-kit').terminal;
const ProgressBar = require('terminal-kit').ProgressBar;
const progressBar = new ProgressBar({
  width: 80,
  title: 'Progress',
  eta: true,
  percent: true
});
let progress = 0;
const interval = setInterval(() => {
  progress += 0.01;
  progressBar.update(progress);
  if (progress >= 1) {
    clearInterval(interval);
    term.green('
Done!
');
  }
}, 100);

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README

Terminal Kit

Terminal utilities for node.js.

• License: MIT
• Current status: alpha/unstable
• Platform: Node.js only

Work in progress, no documentation ATM.

Full BDD spec generated by Mocha:

Toto Tata Titi Tete

TOC

• colors

colors

should.

console.log( term.BLUE + 'Toto' ) ;
console.log( 'Tata' ) ;
console.log( term.red( 'Titi' ) + ' Tete' ) ;