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đź–Ť Terminal string styling done right (by chalk)
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What really happened with Aaron Swartz? (by Marak)
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chalk | Faker.js | |
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57 | 66 | |
21,430 | 1,569 | |
0.4% | - | |
6.4 | 1.7 | |
4 months ago | over 2 years ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
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
LibrerĂas: 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 chĐ°lk. 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()
Faker.js
Posts with mentions or reviews of Faker.js.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-31.
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JavaScript News and Updates of January 2022
Early this month, the malicious attack on free-to-use libraries, namely color.js and faker.js, created a real uproar in the development community. These tools are used in thousands of projects and their downloading rate from npm is estimated in millions per week. To everyone’s surprise, it turned out to be an inside job. Marak Squires, the creator of these libraries, intentionally committed malicious code to his projects and published updated codebases on GitHub and npm. It is said that this sabotage was caused by unsuccessful attempts of Mr. Squires to monetize his projects. Fortunately, malicious packages were quickly removed and the attacker’s account was suspended. The story sparked a new wave of discussion in the development community on possible steps to make the development and maintenance of open-source projects more sustainable.
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Unofficial Faker.js fork positions itself as official successor and assumes name and Open Collective sponsors
For anyone else curious about the allusion to Aaron Swartz, it can be found here and reads (as of posting):
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This is not normal.
Sorry little boy--- I needed to update my LinkedIn profile, hire a professional to write my resume and photograph me, and work on an open-source project no one will use (or worse- work on something everyone uses)"
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Is there something wrong with OpenSource model?
So people, I've been reading the news regarding some great packages on GitHub, like the Colors and the Faker. I understand that this isn't related entirely with the linux community, but it is something that we should pay attention.
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Re: the faker.js debacle: A daily reminder that htmx & hyperscript are dependency free
A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “faker.js” and “colors.js” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer.
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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects
I mean he also maliciously changed all of the links on a faker.js issue to point to conspiracy theories (which I am pretty sure is against Github's TOS): https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/pull/2
- What happened with fakerjs
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The EndGame - Fakerjs
About Four (4) Days Ago, the Author of Fakerjs a popular JavaScript library with more than 2 million weekly Download from NPM Deleted the repository and replaced it with one that only has the modified ReadMe "What really happened with Aaron Swartz?" and no content, and pushed an empty package to npm as the latest version (6.6.6).
- Marak, creator of faker.js who recently deleted the project due to lack of funding and abuse of open source projects/developers pushed some strange Anti American update which has an infinite loop
- Marak adds infinite loop test to popular colors.js
What are some alternatives?
When comparing chalk and Faker.js you can also consider the following projects:
Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
jest-playwright - Running tests using Jest & Playwright
shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
simplecrawler - Flexible event driven crawler for node.
Figlet - JavaScript parser for FIGlet fonts
casual - Fake data generator for javascript
ora - Elegant terminal spinner
fake-store-api - FakeStoreAPI is a free online REST API that provides you fake e-commerce JSON data
Commander.js - node.js command-line interfaces made easy
Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
node-config - Node.js Application Configuration
os-locale - Get the system locale