cli-color - Yet another colors and formatting for the console solution

Colors, formatting and other goodies for the console. This package won't mess with built-ins and provides neat way to predefine formatting patterns, see below.

Installation

$ npm install cli-color

Usage

Usage:

var clc = require('cli-color');

Output colored text:

console.log(clc.red('Text in red'));

Styles can be mixed:

console.log(clc.red.bgWhite.underline('Underlined red text on white background.'));

Styled text can be mixed with unstyled:

console.log(clc.red('red') + ' plain ' + clc.blue('blue'));

Best way is to predefine needed stylings and then use it:

var error = clc.red.bold;
var warn = clc.yellow;
var notice = clc.blue;

console.log(error('Error!'));
console.log(warn('Warning'));
console.log(notice('Notice'));

Supported are all ANSI colors and styles:

Styles

Styles will display correctly if font used in your console supports them.

• bold
• italic
• underline
• inverse
• strike

Foreground colors

• black
• red
• green
• yellow
• blue
• magenta
• cyan
• white
• gray (technically bright.black)

Background colors

• bgBlack
• bgRed
• bgGreen
• bgYellow
• bgBlue
• bgMagenta
• bgCyan
• bgWhite

Colors intensity

For bright color variants:

• bright (foreground)
• bgBright (background)

Additional functions:

trim(formatedText)

Trims ANSI formatted string to plain text

var ansiTrim = require('cli-color/lib/trim');

var plain = ansiTrim(formatted);

throbber(interval[, format])

Displays throbber on given interval. Interval should be clock.interval object Optionally throbber output can be formatted with given format

var interval = require('clock/lib/interval')
  , ansiThrobber = require('cli-color/lib/throbber');

var i = interval(200, true);

// Display throbber while interval is ticking
ansiThrobber(i);

// at any time you can stop/start interval
// When interval is stopped throbber doesn't show
i.stop();