Simple JavaScript fluent interface implementation

Overview

This is a small educational project that:

• Styles and colorizes terminal messages in node.js using ANSI codes,
• Implements a fluent API pattern for simplicity of use,
• Allows easy chained styling of console messages.

Not all possible features are implemented (yet, anyways) - this project is not meant as a replacement for established libraries ...but I won't stop anyone from trying to use it anyways.

• [x] Core text colors,
• [x] Core text styling (bold, italic, strikethrough...),
• [x] Multiple styles/colors per line,
• [x] Additional color codes,
  • [x] Background colors
  • [x] Bold colors
• [x] ()-less syntax

Usage

1. Import the project's code

const colors = require("fluent-interface-colors")

2. Start logging messages

colors.red.bold.log("Hello world!")

More

• To use multiple styles per line simply use the .then(message) and .and(message) methods

//Reset style for the next segment
colors.red.bold.then("Hello").blue.italic.log(" world!")
//Keep styling for the next segment
colors.red.bold.and("Hello ").blue.italic.log("world!")

Spaces are not added automatically between strings.

• To preformat a message and have it ready to print from the console (or formatted further) somewhere else, use the format(message) method

const formatted = colors.bold.format("Preformatted message")
console.log(formatted)
//To add onto the message styles simply wrap it in another chain
colors.underline.magenta.log(formatted)

Full list of colors and styles

• Colors:
  • black,
  • red,
  • green,
  • yellow,
  • blue,
  • magenta,
  • cyan,
  • white.

You can prefix all of the above with:

• b for bold, or bright, (e.g., bgreen),
• bg for background (e. g., bgred),
• bbg for both (e. g. bbgmagenta).

-Styles:

• bold,
• dim,
• italic,
• underline,
• inverse,
• hidden (invisible),
• strikethrough.