menu-string

Generate a menu with selectable menu items as a string.

Installation

npm install menu-string --save

Usage

const Menu = require('menu-string')

const menu = new Menu({
  items: [
    {text: 'Item 1'},
    {text: 'Item 2'},
    {text: '------', separator: true},
    {text: 'Item 3'}
  ],
  selected: 0
})

console.log(menu.toString())
// > Item 1
//   Item 2
//   ------
//   Item 3

// Move cursor one item down
menu.down()

console.log(menu.toString())
//   Item 1
// > Item 2
//   ------
//   Item 3

API

menu = new Menu(options)

Initialize a new menu object.

Options:

• items - An array of item objects
• render - An optional render function that will be called for each menu item that is rendered. Will be called with the item object that should be rendered and a boolean indicating if the item is currectly selected. Should return a rendered string representing the menu item. The item object will have an index property indicating its position in the menu
• selected - An optional integer specifying which menu item should be selected by default (defaults to 0)
• height - Set menu max height (in rows). If set, the menu will maintain a viewport, only ever rendering that amout of menu items. When moving the cursor up or down, the viewport will scroll to accommodate.

An item object can have the following properties:

• text - The text to show when rendering the item
• separator - A boolean indicating if the item can be selected

An item can also just be a string, which is treated as {text: item}.

If no custom render function is provided, the following default render function is used:

function (item, selected) {
  return (selected ? '> ' : '  ') + item.text
}

menu = new Menu(items)

An alias for:

new Menu({
  items: items
})

Event: update

An update event is emitted when ever the menu is updated - i.e. the cursor is moved.

success = menu.up()

Move the cursor one item up. Separator items will be skipped.

Returns false if top of menu have been reached. Returns true otherwise.

success = menu.down()

Move the cursor one item down. Separator items will be skipped.

Returns false if bottom of menu have been reached. Returns true otherwise.

menu.select(index)

Select a specific menu item.

Returns false if the index was invalid. Returns true otherwise.

item = menu.selected()

Returns the selected item object. The returned item object will have an index property indicating its position in the menu. Returns null if no selectable menu item exists.

str = menu.toString()

Returns the entire menu as a single string. One line for each menu item rendered by the render function.

License

MIT