Make awesome tables that you can console.log() to make logging more professional! Tables use string too! You could use this to generate static pages.

Index

• Installation
• Examples
• Contributors
• License

How to install

# install the bin script
npm i stringtables

Examples

// Load in the package
let st = require('stringtables');

// Create a new Table, and pass in table columns as parameters (spaces allowed)
let t = new st.Table("  Col 1  ", "  Col 2  ", "  Col 3  ", " Fields can be different lengths too! ", "π Uni•code support! ¬");

// Print out a new header for our table
console.log(t.newHeader());

// OUTPUT
// +---------+---------+---------+--------------------------------------+---------------------+
// |  Col 1  |  Col 2  |  Col 3  | Fields can be different lengths too! |π Uni•code support! ¬|
// +---------+---------+---------+--------------------------------------+---------------------+

// Add an entry to our table
console.log(t.newLine(new st.Line("Item 1", "itm2", "col3item", "shortText", "i lik unicod")));

// OUTPUT
// |Item 1   |itm2     |col3item |shortText                             |i lik unicod         |

// Finsih the table
console.log(t.newFooter());

// OUTPUT
// +---------+---------+---------+--------------------------------------+---------------------+


// END RESULT
// +---------+---------+---------+--------------------------------------+---------------------+
// |  Col 1  |  Col 2  |  Col 3  | Fields can be different lengths too! |π Uni•code support! ¬|
// +---------+---------+---------+--------------------------------------+---------------------+
// |Item 1   |itm2     |col3item |shortText                             |i lik unicod         |
// +---------+---------+---------+--------------------------------------+---------------------+

Contributors

• Brian Shao

License

The MIT License

Copyright 2018 Brain Shao

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.

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