ansicodes VS colorette

/** @param {NS} ns */ export async function main(ns) { //Defines colors to make print pretty :) //ANSII codes taken from https://ansi.gabebanks.net/ and improved upon with https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4842424/list-of-ansi-color-escape-sequences const colors = {red: "\x1b[38;5;160m", green: "\x1b[38;5;40m", yellow: "\x1b[38;5;226m", blue: "\x1b[38;5;33m", magenta: "\x1b[38;5;165m", cyan: "\x1b[38;5;123m", white: "\x1b[38;5;231m", def: "\x1b[38;5;10m", reset: "\x1b[0m"} if (ns.fileExists("targets.txt")) { //Reads targets file and turns them into an array const targets = ns.read("targets.txt").split(","); //Creates object with all the information we'll need from the server through map const tardata = targets.map(targetname => { const server = ns.getServer(targetname) ; return {hostname: targetname, money: server.moneyMax, root: server.hasAdminRights, backdoor: server.backdoorInstalled, ram: server.maxRam, portstoopen: server.numOpenPortsRequired - server.openPortCount}; }); //Sorts the object from most max money to least tardata.sort((a, b) => { return b.money - a.money; }); //Prints to console the list in order with all the necessary info. let i = 1; for (const target of tardata) { //This is probably the longest tprint I'll ever write. holy. ns.tprint(colors.green, i.toString().padStart(2, '0'), ": Hostname: ", colors.cyan, target.hostname.padEnd(18, " "), colors.green, " - Max Money: ", colors.cyan, target.money.toString().padEnd(18, " "), colors.green, " - root/backdoor: ", colors.cyan, target.root.toString().padStart(5, " "), colors.green, "/", colors.cyan, target.backdoor.toString().padEnd(5, " "), colors.green, " - Ram: ", colors.cyan, target.ram.toString().padStart(3, " "), "GB", colors.green, " - Ports To Open: ", colors.cyan, target.portstoopen.toString().padStart(2, " "), colors.reset); i++; } } else { ns.tprint("run createtargets.js '123321'"); } }

Here are the smallest libs: picocolors (2.6KB), kleur (2.7KB), ansis (3.2KB) and colorette (3.3KB), the rest are at least double larger.

https://npm.im/colorette (16.9M weekly downloads) https://github.com/jorgebucaran/colorette (1.4k stars)

https://github.com/jorgebucaran/colorette/issues/70

> why not drop your fork now that colorette has changed the API back?

Author continued to act impulsively. He rolled back API in patch release instead of major made breaking changes.