ansicodes VS rich-cli

/** @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'"); } }

I hope he doesn't mind, but the creator of Rich and Textualize is a good guy, and Scottish: https://www.willmcgugan.com/about/

https://www.textualize.io/

https://github.com/Textualize/rich

You are using print statements too much. I understand the use due to it being a CLI application but still I suggest you look at textualize.

For more than a year I have been refactoring coBib, getting rid of its original ncurses-based TUI in favor of a more modern and a lot more maintainable textual-based TUI. Developing it has been a lot of fun and I must say that the team over at Textualize is doing a great job at developing libraries which are somehow very powerful and extensible while still being easy to use!

Will McGugan is among the most well-known Python developers. He's the author of Rich, a library for formatting output in the terminal. It's used, among others, by pip, and has more than 40K stars on GitHub. In 2021, Will started building Textual, a TUI (text user interface) framework based on Rich. At the end of the year, he founded the company Textualize.

The future of the command line is something along the lines of what these guys are doing:

https://www.textualize.io

IF you ever wanted to build rich User Interfaces that work in the terminal with mouse support written in Python, then Textual is the Library for you.

If you change your mind about Python there's textual+rich, https://www.textualize.io/.