The most lightweight terminal color package out there

For ultra-lighweight, no-bloat terminal styling, use sscolors!

Highlights

• 0 dependencies
• Lightning fast
• ultra-lighweight at less than 5 kB
• Ablitiy to nest as many styles as you want

Roadmap

• Automatically check terminal color support
• 256/Truecolor support
• chaining styles

Installation

    npm install sscolors

Full typescript ES6 support

Usage

    import color from 'sscolors';
    
    console.log(color.{color}("Hello, world!");)

sscolors contains easy to use, composable styling where you can easily chain and nest the styles you want

    import color from 'sscolors';
    
    const log = console.log;

    // combined styles and plain text
    log(color.blue('Hello'), 'World', color.red('!'))

    // multiple nested styles
    log(color.blue(color.background.red(color.bold("Hello, world!"))))


    // multiple colors in one string

    log(`
    typescript: ${color.green('75%')}
    python: ${color.yellow('45%')}
    c++: ${color.red('5%')}
    
    `)

Styles

Modifiers

• bold - make the text bold
• italic - make the text italic (not widely supported)
• underline - underline the text (not widely supported)
• strikethrough - place a horizontal line through the text (not widely supported)

Colors

• black
• red
• green
• yellow
• blue
• magenta
• cyan
• white
• gray

Backgrounds

    color.background.{color}

Special modifiers

color.modifier.swapcolors - swaps foreground and background colors

animations

color.animation.blinkslow - slow blinking text color.animation.blinkfast - fast blinking text

Browser support

sscolors works with most modern browsers

Why sscolors?

Alternatives like chalk are bulky and don't work well with typescript. sscolors is a clean, lightweight, simple solution for all your terminal styling needs.

Making CLI apps?

Try out ts-argparser! A modern, simple argument parser made for typescript!

(https://github.com/pvwnthem/typescript-arg-parser)