chalk
🖍 Terminal string styling done right (by chalk)
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yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist. (by yargs)
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chalk | yargs | |
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57 | 38 | |
21,396 | 10,917 | |
0.7% | 0.4% | |
6.4 | 5.0 | |
3 months ago | 14 days 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.
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
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()
yargs
Posts with mentions or reviews of yargs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-28.
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A Guide to Building CLI Tools in JavaScript
Your tool now automates project setup, but there's room for improvement. Consider adding more features or handling user input to customize the project structure. Explore packages like yargs for parsing command-line arguments. You can learn more about yargs through their official documentation here.
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Mastering Node.js CLI: Best Practices and Tips
This code snippet uses yargs, a Node.js package, to parse command-line arguments in a POSIX-compliant way, including support for short and long-form options. You could also use the popular commander defined as a complete node.js command-line interface.
- Show HN: Pg-CLI – Read PG's essays in your terminal
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Process of working in parallel branches in GitHub
This feature was implemented by adding a new argument option -l or --lang in yargs as below.
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Searching through JSON logs locally
Creating CLIs with yargs is a piece of cake. For LZ4 there is a streaming implementation on npm which is a single function and also happened to decompress my files without any errors. Everything else is out-of-box Node.js.
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What is your ideal setup for new project for solo developers
Backend is more tricky. - RESTful APIs I prefer Koajs - For a RPC/microsevice, I have only used gRPC - For a CLI, yargs and inquirer
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yargs VS clerc - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 26 Dec 2022
- Making command line commands with javascript
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DPS909 Blog - Lab 3: Managing Simultaneous Changes
To accomplish this task, I added a new option using the yargs module. This allows me to read whatever the user inputs after using -l/--l. Following this, I added a conditional statement that defaults to en-CA whenever a language code is not inputted.
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Command line applications
You can build them from scratch, or use one of many specialized libraries on NPM, like commander, yargs, blessed, terminal kit, prompts, and many more.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing chalk and yargs you can also consider the following projects:
Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
minimist - parse argument options
shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
Figlet - JavaScript parser for FIGlet fonts
meow - 🐈 CLI app helper
ora - Elegant terminal spinner
oclif - CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce.
Commander.js - node.js command-line interfaces made easy
vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs
node-config - Node.js Application Configuration
get-stdin - Get stdin as a string or buffer