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readme.md
yoctocolors 🌈
The smallest and fastest command-line coloring package on the internet
Check out Chalk if you want something more mature and comprehensive.
Highlights
- Tiny
- Fast
- Handles nested colors
- Tree-shakeable
- No dependencies
- Actively maintained
Install
npm install yoctocolors
Usage
import colors from 'yoctocolors';
console.log(colors.red('Yo!'));
console.log(colors.blue(`Welcome to the ${colors.green('yoctocolors')} package!`));
You can also import colors as named imports:
import {red, blue, green} from 'yoctocolors';
console.log(red('Yo!'));
console.log(blue(`Welcome to the ${green('yoctocolors')} package!`));
This package supports basic color detection. Colors can be forcefully enabled by setting the FORCE_COLOR environment variable to 1 and can be forcefully disabled by setting NO_COLOR or NODE_DISABLE_COLORS to any value. More info.
Styles
Modifiers
reset- Reset the current style.bold- Make the text bold.dim- Make the text have lower opacity.italic- Make the text italic. (Not widely supported)underline- Put a horizontal line above the text. (Not widely supported)overline- Put a horizontal line below the text. (Not widely supported)inverse- Invert background and foreground colors.hidden- Print the text but make it invisible.strikethrough- Put a horizontal line through the center of the text. (Not widely supported)
Colors
blackredgreenyellowbluemagentacyanwhitegrayredBrightgreenBrightyellowBrightblueBrightmagentaBrightcyanBrightwhiteBright
Background colors
bgBlackbgRedbgGreenbgYellowbgBluebgMagentabgCyanbgWhitebgGraybgRedBrightbgGreenBrightbgYellowBrightbgBlueBrightbgMagentaBrightbgCyanBrightbgWhiteBright
Prior art
Yes
Benchmark
$ ./benchmark.js
┌─────────┬────────────────┬─────────────┐
│ (index) │ library │ ops/sec │
├─────────┼────────────────┼─────────────┤
│ 0 │ 'yoctocolors' │ '8,000,000' │
│ 1 │ 'colorette' │ '8,000,000' │
│ 2 │ 'picocolors' │ '8,000,000' │
│ 3 │ 'nanocolors' │ '5,988,024' │
│ 4 │ 'chalk' │ '4,807,692' │
│ 5 │ 'kleur/colors' │ '4,807,692' │
│ 6 │ 'kleur' │ '4,784,689' │
│ 7 │ 'ansi-colors' │ '2,178,649' │
│ 8 │ 'cli-color' │ '585,138' │
└─────────┴────────────────┴─────────────┘
See benchmark.js.
FAQ
What is yocto?
It was the smallest official unit prefix in the metric system until 2022. Much smaller than nano.
Related
- yoctodelay - Delay a promise a given amount of time
- chalk - Terminal string styling