chalk VS boxen

Compare chalk vs boxen and see what are their differences.

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chalk boxen
57 3
21,312 1,467
0.9% -
6.4 4.2
2 months ago 7 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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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.

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 withΒ 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 chalk and boxen you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

ora - Elegant terminal spinner

Commander.js - node.js command-line interfaces made easy

Figlet - JavaScript parser for FIGlet fonts

node-config - Node.js Application Configuration

cli-table - Pretty unicode tables for the CLI with Node.JS

yargs - yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist.

nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

kleur - The fastest Node.js library for formatting terminal text with ANSI colors~!

vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs

zx - A tool for writing better scripts