Chalk with style strings.

Chalk adds styles to terminal strings. chalk-string is a thin wrapper around it which allows specifying those styles as a string. This enables user-defined or dynamic styling.

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Example

import chalkString from 'chalk-string'

const addStyles = chalkString()

addStyles('red', 'input') // Same as: chalk.red('input')
addStyles('red bold', 'input') // Same as: chalk.red.bold('input')
addStyles('hex-ffffff', 'input') // Same as: chalk.hex('ffffff')('input')
addStyles('rgb-10-20-30', 'input') // Same as: chalk.rgb(10, 20, 30)('input')

addStyles('invalidStyle', 'input') // Invalid styles throw an error

Install

npm install chalk-string

This package works in Node.js >=18.18.0.

This is an ES module. It must be loaded using an import or import() statement, not require(). If TypeScript is used, it must be configured to output ES modules, not CommonJS.

API

chalkString(options?)

options Options?
Return value: addStyles()

Options

colors

Type: boolean
Default: undefined

Whether colors should be enabled/disabled, regardless of terminal support. Colors support is automatically detected, so this is only meant to override that default behavior.

stream

Type: Stream
Default: process.stdout

Stream used to detect colors support. This should be the file or terminal where the colors are output.

addStyles(styles, input)

styles stylesString
input string
Return value: string

Apply styles to input then return it.

Available styles

# Standard styles
bold underline inverse reset

# Those styles do not always work on Windows
dim italic hidden strikethrough

# Hidden when the terminal does not support colors
visible

# Basic colors
black red green yellow blue magenta cyan white gray
blackBright redBright greenBright yellowBright blueBright
magentaBright cyanBright whiteBright

# Advanced colors
hex-ffffff
rgb-255-255-255

# Background colors
bgBlack bgRed bgGreen bgYellow bgBlue bgMagenta bgCyan bgWhite bgGray
bgBlackBright bgRedBright bgGreenBright bgYellowBright bgBlueBright
bgMagentaBright bgCyanBright bgWhiteBright
bgHex-* bgRgb-*

Related projects

• colors-option: Let users toggle colors.
• terminal-theme: 🎨 Use a color theme for your code's terminal output

Support

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