boxen
Create boxes in the terminal (by sindresorhus)
chalk
🖍 Terminal string styling done right (by chalk)
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| boxen | chalk | |
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| 3 | 57 | |
| 1,473 | 21,410 | |
| - | 0.8% | |
| 3.1 | 6.4 | |
| 8 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
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Interactive Node JS command line
boxen
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Build a business card CLI tool
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.
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Build a CLI with Node.js
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.
chalk
Posts with mentions or reviews of chalk.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-19.
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JavaScript Libraries That You Should Know
4. Chalk
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Extracting YouTube video data with OpenAI and LangChain
Chalk: Provides an easy way to stylize terminal strings with various colors and text formatting in Node.js, aiding in creating visually appealing command-line outputs
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Mastering Node.js CLI: Best Practices and Tips
Chalk is a popular choice for adding colors to CLI output while maintaining readability.
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Despidiéndome de Console.log
Librerías: Chalk winston, log4js
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Comparison of Node.js libraries to colorize text in terminal
Today the most popular library and de facto standard is the chаlk. The chalk has rich functionality, is fast but not ideal. It lacks some useful features.
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Command Line Application: Bank Loan Tracker [Node]
This is a new tutorial on how to create a command line interface application, and our application today is a Mortgage Calculator. I used in this program packages such as 1- inquirer for interactive questions and answers: https://www.npmjs.com/package/inquirer 2- Sqlite3 DBMS 3- Chalk for colorful output in the terminal: https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk
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ESM not gaining traction in back-end Node?
One of the libraries I used most that went full-ESM is Chalk. They released v5 over a year-and-a-half ago (November 2021) with ESM-only support and haven't updated v4 - their last iteration that supported CommonJS - since. If you go into their GitHub Issues section, you'll see a number of issues raised about CommonJS support, most of which are just responded to with a link to a post they made about switching over. Fair enough. I guess if I had to constantly answer the same question over and over, I might do the same.
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Let’s create a Node CLI for generating files from templates!
To colorize my logs, I used a chalk package and created a logger utility:
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Create a CLI tool to help bootstraping Flutter project using Node.JS - Part 1
We will add some dependencies to help us deal with CLI behaviours (inquirer) and text coloring (chalk).
- Going beyond the old and boring console.log()
What are some alternatives?
When comparing boxen and chalk you can also consider the following projects:
columnify - Create text-based columns suitable for console output. Supports cell wrapping.
Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
cli-columns - Columnated lists for the CLI. Unicode and ANSI safe.
Figlet - JavaScript parser for FIGlet fonts
cross-env
ora - Elegant terminal spinner
sparkly - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇
Commander.js - node.js command-line interfaces made easy
node-config - Node.js Application Configuration