Typo

Make typography beautiful in command-line.

Typo is a scalable node.js template engine designed for and focused on command-line (cli), which helps to format and beautify your console output.

Typo supports not only basic ANSI escope codes, such as basic background and foreground colors, underline, bold, etc, and ALSO full 8-bit colors (256 colors).

Installation

npm install typo --save

Getting started

Typo is a Readable stream, which means you can .pipe() and .on('data', c) with it.

// create a typo instance
var typo = require('typo')();

// remember to pipe
typo.pipe(process.stdout);

typo.log("There's once in a {{blue blue}} moon~");

Typo Plugins

• typo-rgb: support full 8-bit RGB colors !
• typo-image: display pictures in CLI !
• typo-ascii: ascii art text in CLI with all kinds of styles ! (on developing)

Usage

Syntax

( '{{<helper[:<data>][|helper[:<data>]]> <text>}}', <object> );

Simple substitution

typo.log('{{1}}{{b}}{{c.a}}{{c.b}}', {'1': 1, b:2, c: {a: 3}}); 
// print '123c.b'.
// in which, `'c.b'` is not matched in `values` and not substituted.

With helper functions

typo.log('{{bold abc}}');         // print a bold 'abc'
typo.log('{{red abc}}');  		   // print a red 'abc'

With piped helpers

typo.log('{{bold|blue|underline abc}}'); // print a blue bold 'abc' with a underline

Custom helpers

typo.register('sum', function(value){{
    return value.split(',').reduce(function(prev, current){
        return (parseInt(current) || 0) + prev;
    }, 0);
}});

typo.log('{{sum 1,2,3}}');         // print 6

Work with plugins

You need to install plugins first.

npm install typo-image

var image = require('typo-image');
typo.plugin(image);

typo.log('{{~image ./logo.png}}');  // will print the png image to the CLI !

Nested helpers

typo.log('{#list}3{/list}');

Which will not show up before typo@1.0.0.

if you like typo, there will be a billion thanks if you fork typo and make pull requests.

Available helpers

The helpers below are built-in helpers of typo, and you could define your own helpers by typo.register method.

There will also be typo plugins soon or gradually.

Basic colors

Eight basic ANSI colors:

typo.log('{{magenta purple text}}');

Other text styles

• italic # not widely supported. Sometimes treated as inverse.
• bold
• underline
• inverse
• strikethrough

Plugin: {{rgb:<rgb> <text>}}

You need to install plugin 'typo-rgb' to use this helper.

npm install typo-rgb --save

Highlight your text text with any RGB colors filled in foreground.

Notice that if your RGB color is not a standard 8-bit RGB color, typo will automatically choose the closest one in the color palette, which will be really helpful.

typo.plugin(require('typo-rgb'));
typo.log('{{bg.rgb:#f26d7d|rgb:#000|bold peach bg and black bold font}}');

There's a background version of RGB: {{bg.rgb:<rgb> <text>}}.

Typo factory and typo constructor

How to create a typo instance.

var Typo = require('typo');
var typo = Typo(options);

Or

// this is the typo constructor from which your module  could be inherited.
var Typo = require('typo').Typo; 
var typo = new Typo(options);

options.clean Boolean

Optional, default to false

If true, typo will clean all styles and output pure text, which is really helpfull if you use typo in CI.

options.output Stream.Writeable

Optional, no default value

The writeable stream to write into. If set, typo will .pipe() output to that stream.

However, you could also use .pipe() method to do this.

Instance Methods

These methods below is the methods of the typo instance.

typo.log(pattern [,values [,callback]])

Print a formated output to the command-line. Has no return value.

pattern string

Template pattern

values Object|Array

Optional

If no values passed or not matched, the relevant pattern will not be substituted.

callback function(err, output)

Optional

Typo also support asynchronous help functions. See "register asynchronous helpers" section.

typo.template(pattern [,values [,callback]])

Returns

The parsed or substituted ouput, if all helpers are synchronous.

Or output will be passed to callback.

typo.register(name, helper)

typo.register(helpers_map)

Register helpers for the current instance

name

string

helper (sync)

function(str)

Will be treated as a sync helper, if has only one term parameter (also called formal parameter);

Besides, the data (in "syntax" section) could be fetched using this.data inside helper.

helper (async)

function(str, callback)

If helper has more than one term parameters, it will be treated as an async helper.

And the second parameter will be the callback which should be implemented inside the helper function.

helpers_map

Object

typo.plugin(plugin)

Register a plugin

plugin Object

The typo plugin.

Register global helpers and plugins

var Typo = require('typo');

Typo.register(helpers); // the same parameters as `typo.register`
Typo.plugin(plugin);	 // the same parameters as `typo.plugin`