essential-md

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A minimalistic markdown like utility to log:

• headers
• bold text
• underlined text
• dimmed text
• striked text
• lists of items
• quotes
• multi or single line code, to keep its content unaffected
• clear 1 up to N previous lines
• prompt to ask questions (for anything fancier, see prompts)

API

Every exported method can be used either as function or as template literal tag.

• emd to transform content into a string
• log to convert and console.log(...) the result right away
• error to console.error a bold red Error: in front of the message
• info to console.info a bold blue Info: in front of the message
• warn to console.warn a bold yellow Warning: in front of the message
• clear to clear any previous logged line (clear(1), clear(7), ... default 1)
• prompt to ask questions (prompt('What is your name?').then(...))
• ok to console.log a bold green OK: in front of the message
• blue, green, red, and yellow, to easily color some part of the text

Examples

import {log, green, red} from 'essential-md';
// const {log, green, red} = require('essential-md');

log`
# This is a header

With some extra content, plus:

  * a ${green`green`} text
  * a ${red`red`} text

... and literally **nothing else**
`;

The essential-md Markdown flavour

• # header or #header# to have top header
• ## header or ## header ## to have less relevant headers
• *bold* or **bold** to have bold text
• _underlined_ or __underlined__ to have underlined text
• -dim- or --dim-- to have dimmed text (not on Windows though, Windows doesn't understand dimmed text ...)
• ~strike~ or ~~strike~~ to strike the text
• ''' or 3 backticks to have multi-line code
• single backtick to have inline code
• a line starting with a space and one of these *+-. chars to have lists
• a line starting with > to quote text

That's all folks!