ansi-escapes VS boxen

Compare ansi-escapes vs boxen and see what are their differences.

ansi-escapes

ANSI escape codes for manipulating the terminal (by sindresorhus)
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boxen

Create boxes in the terminal (by sindresorhus)
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ansi-escapes

Posts with mentions or reviews of ansi-escapes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

boxen

Posts with mentions or reviews of boxen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-30.
  • Interactive Node JS command line
    3 projects | dev.to | 30 Dec 2023
    boxen
  • Build a business card CLI tool
    5 projects | dev.to | 9 Jun 2022
    There are many tools available to help with styling your command line output. For my business card, I used a combination of boxen to draw the box around the content, and chalk to power the font styles and colours. I'll leave this part up to you, but you can view the code on GitHub to see how I did it. Be aware that if you want to use ES6 imports in Node, you'll need to update your index.js file extension to .mjs, and edit the package.json "bin" section accordingly.
  • Build a CLI with Node.js
    3 projects | dev.to | 18 Jan 2021
    Your CLI is complete now! One thing more that you can do is to decorate the output and errors with boxes and colors, we can do that using boxen and chalk.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ansi-escapes and boxen you can also consider the following projects:

string-width - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it

chalk - 🖍 Terminal string styling done right

vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs

columnify - Create text-based columns suitable for console output. Supports cell wrapping.

shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js

Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.

blessed - A high-level terminal interface library for node.js.

cli-columns - Columnated lists for the CLI. Unicode and ANSI safe.

insight - Node.js module to help you understand how your tool is being used by anonymously reporting usage metrics to Google Analytics

cross-env

sudo-block - Block users from running your app with root permissions

sparkly - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇

ansi-escapes vs string-width boxen vs chalk ansi-escapes vs vorpal boxen vs columnify ansi-escapes vs shelljs boxen vs Inquirer.js ansi-escapes vs blessed boxen vs cli-columns ansi-escapes vs insight boxen vs cross-env ansi-escapes vs sudo-block boxen vs sparkly