cli-table VS string-width

Compare cli-table vs string-width and see what are their differences.

cli-table

Pretty unicode tables for the CLI with Node.JS (by Automattic)

string-width

Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it (by sindresorhus)
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cli-table string-width
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2,264 449
0.3% -
0.0 5.3
over 1 year ago about 2 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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cli-table

Posts with mentions or reviews of cli-table. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-21.

string-width

Posts with mentions or reviews of string-width. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning string-width yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cli-table and string-width you can also consider the following projects:

chalk - 🖍 Terminal string styling done right

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

vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs

ascii-charts - Ansi charts for nodejs

get-stdin - Get stdin as a string or buffer

columnify - Create text-based columns suitable for console output. Supports cell wrapping.

drawille - Drawing in terminal with unicode braille characters

cli-columns - Columnated lists for the CLI. Unicode and ANSI safe.

yn - Parse yes/no like values

ora - Elegant terminal spinner