nice-table

A non-overflowing console.table alternative with customization options.

Usage

import { createTable } from 'nice-table';

type Person = {
    name: string;
    age: number;
};

const myData: Person[] = [
    { name: 'John', age: 30 },
    { name: 'Jane', age: 25 },
    { name: 'Joe', age: 20 },
    {
        name: 'Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso',
        age: new Date(Date.now() - Date.UTC(1881, 3, 8)).getUTCFullYear() - 1970,
    },
];

console.log(
    createTable<Person>(myData, ['name', 'age'], {
        maxWidth: 60,
        columnSizing: 'stretch',
        horizontalAlignment: 'middle',
        verticalAlignment: 'middle',
        fullWidth: true,
        indexColumn: false,
        throwIfTooSmall: false,
    }),
);

// Output:
// ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────┐
// │                        name                        │ age │
// ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────┤
// │                        John                        │ 30  │
// │                        Jane                        │ 25  │
// │                        Joe                         │ 20  │
// │      Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan      │     │
// │  Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la   │ 141 │
// │         Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso          │     │
// └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────┘

Colored Output

import * as util from 'node:util';

// ...

console.log(
    createTable<Person>(myData, ['name', 'age'], {
        stringify: (value: unknown) => util.inspect(value, { colors: true }),
    }),
);

Options

maxWidth

The maximum width of the table. This width will never be exceeded by the table. Can be set to process.stdout.columns to use the terminal width in Node.js.

Defaults to 80.

columnSizing

The strategy used to determine the width of each column. There are two possible values:

• 'stretch': The size of each column is proportional to the length of its content. All columns larger than maxWidth / columnCount are shrunk by the same ratio in case the table is too large for the configured maxWidth.
• 'even': All columns will have the same size.

Defaults to 'stretch'.

horizontalAlignment

The horizontal alignment the text in all table cells. Possible values are 'left', 'middle', 'right'.

Defaults to 'middle'.

verticalAlignment

The vertical alignment the text in all table cells. Possible values are 'top', 'middle', 'bottom'.

Defaults to 'middle'.

fullWidth

Whether to stretch the table to the maxWidth.

Defaults to false.

throwIfTooSmall

Whether to throw an error if the maxWidth is too small to fit the content. maxWidth should be at least 4 * columnCount + 1 to fit a table with columnCount columns.

If set to false will return a message indicating that there is not enough space to fit the table.

Defaults to true.

indexColumn

Whether to include an index column.

Defaults to false.

stringify

A function converts values into strings before they are is displayed. ANSI codes are supported, so colored input can be achieved as shown in Colored Output.

Defaults to String.