Coloring

Node.js terminal CLI text coloring

Installation

$ npm install coloring

Styles

• bold
• italic
• underline
• inverse
• strikethrough
• white
• grey
• black
• blue
• cyan
• green
• magenta
• red
• yellow

coloring#

Extend String prototype with coloring

var coloring = require('coloring');

coloring#[STYLE]

Apply style to sting where [STYLE] would be replaced with the requested coloring style

// apply style with coloring String property
console.log('TEST2'.bold);

// apply multiple styles to a single string
console.log('TEST2'.yellow.underline);

// apply style with coloring function

console.log(coloring.green('test'));

coloring#alias

Alias a coloring style

coloring.alias('warn', 'yellow');

coloring#disabled

set to true to disable coloring or pass the --no-colors flag to disable coloring

// disable coloring

coloring.disabled = true;

// re-enable coloring

coloring.disabled = true;

Examples

var coloring = require('coloring');

// basic usage

console.log('Oh no!!!'.red);
console.log('Slow down'.yellow);
console.log('Red Light'.red, 'Green Light'.green);
console.log(coloring.green('Happy St. Patty\'s Day'));

// aliasing colors

coloring.alias('warn', 'yellow');
coloring.alias('error', 'red');
coloring.alias('success', 'green');

console.log('I think we have an issue'.error);
console.log('I may be lost'.warn);
console.log('We have beer!'.success);

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Christian Sullivan <[email protected]>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.