4.6 KiB
Features
- No dependencies
- Super lightweight & performant
- Supports nested & chained colors
- No
String.prototypemodifications - Conditional color support
- Familiar API
Originally inspired by ansi-colors. See Credits for more info!
Install
$ npm install --save kleur
Usage
const kleur = require('kleur');
// basic usage
kleur.red('red text');
// chained methods
kleur.blue.bold.underline('howdy partner');
// nested methods
kleur.bold(`${ kleur.bgRed.white('[ERROR]') } ${ kleur.red.italic('Something happened')}`);
Chained Methods
console.log(kleur.bold.red('this is a bold red message'));
console.log(kleur.bold.italic('this is a bold italicized message'));
console.log(kleur.bold.yellow.bgRed.italic('this is a bold yellow italicized message'));
console.log(kleur.green.bold.underline('this is a bold green underlined message'));
Nested Methods
const { yellow, red, cyan } = require('kleur');
console.log(yellow(`foo ${red.bold('red')} bar ${cyan('cyan')} baz`));
console.log(yellow('foo ' + red.bold('red') + ' bar ' + cyan('cyan') + ' baz'));
Conditional Support
Toggle color support as needed; kleur assumes it's always enabled.
const kleur = require('kleur');
// manually disable
kleur.enabled = false;
// or use a library to detect support
kleur.enabled = require('color-support').level;
console.log(kleur.red('I will only be colored red if the terminal supports colors'));
API
Any kleur method returns a String (when invoked, not chained). It's up to the developer to pass the output to destinations like console.log, process.stdout.write, etc.
The methods below are grouped by type for legibility purposes only. They each can be chained or nested with one another.
Colors:
black — red — green — yellow — blue — magenta — cyan — white — gray
Backgrounds:
bgBlack — bgRed — bgGreen — bgYellow — bgBlue — bgMagenta — bgCyan — bgWhite
Modifiers:
reset — bold — dim — italic* — underline — inverse — hidden — strikethrough*
* Not widely supported
Benchmarks
Using Node v8.9.0
Load time
chalk: 9.372ms
turbocolor: 0.526ms
ansi-colors: 0.851ms
kleur: 0.862ms
Performance
# All Colors
ansi-colors x 60,485 ops/sec ±0.63% (96 runs sampled)
chalk x 7,184 ops/sec ±3.77% (68 runs sampled)
turbocolor x 95,468 ops/sec ±0.60% (94 runs sampled))
kleur x 151,365 ops/sec ±0.22% (95 runs sampled)
# Stacked colors
ansi-colors x 13,754 ops/sec ±0.44% (93 runs sampled)
chalk x 1,732 ops/sec ±3.76% (71 runs sampled)
turbocolor x 28,709 ops/sec ±1.32% (92 runs sampled)
kleur x 30,837 ops/sec ±0.13% (93 runs sampled)
# Nested colors
ansi-colors x 28,898 ops/sec ±0.32% (96 runs sampled)
chalk x 3,389 ops/sec ±4.03% (71 runs sampled)
turbocolor x 48,034 ops/sec ±1.47% (99 runs sampled)
kleur x 61,266 ops/sec ±0.33% (97 runs sampled)
Credits
This project was originally inspired by Brian Woodward's awesome ansi-colors project.
Unlike v1, the latest version(s) of kleur no longer supports:
- printf-formatting
- variadic function arguments
- multiline text via
\nor\r kleur.clear()method
In addition, kleur continues to be ship without symbols and bright color variants.
If you need any of these features, please use ansi-colors instead~!
License
MIT © Luke Edwards