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

## Features * No dependencies * Super [lightweight](#load-time) & [performant](#performance) * Supports [nested](#nested-methods) & [chained](#chained-methods) colors * No `String.prototype` modifications * Conditional [color support](#conditional-support) * [Fully treeshakable](#individual-colors) * Familiar [API](#api) --- As of `v3.0` the Chalk-style syntax (magical getter) is no longer used.
Please visit [History](#history) for migration paths supporting that syntax. --- ## Install ``` $ npm install --save kleur ``` ## Usage ```js import kleur from 'kleur'; // basic usage kleur.red('red text'); // chained methods kleur.blue().bold().underline('howdy partner'); // nested methods kleur.bold(`${ white().bgRed('[ERROR]') } ${ kleur.red().italic('Something happened')}`); ``` ### Chained Methods ```js const { bold, green } = require('kleur'); console.log(bold().red('this is a bold red message')); console.log(bold().italic('this is a bold italicized message')); console.log(bold().yellow().bgRed().italic('this is a bold yellow italicized message')); console.log(green().bold().underline('this is a bold green underlined message')); ```

### Nested Methods ```js 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` includes simple auto-detection which may not cover all cases. > **Note:** Both `kleur` and `kleur/colors` share the same detection logic. ```js import kleur from 'kleur'; // manually disable kleur.enabled = false; // or use another library to detect support kleur.enabled = require('color-support').level > 0; console.log(kleur.red('I will only be colored red if the terminal supports colors')); ``` > **Important:**
Colors will be disabled automatically in non [TTY contexts](https://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_a_note_on_process_i_o). For example, spawning another process or piping output into another process will disable colorization automatically. To force colors in your piped output, you may do so with the `FORCE_COLOR=1` environment variable: ```sh $ node app.js #=> COLORS $ node app.js > log.txt #=> NO COLORS $ FORCE_COLOR=1 node app.js > log.txt #=> COLORS $ FORCE_COLOR=0 node app.js > log.txt #=> NO COLORS ``` ## API Any `kleur` method returns a `String` when invoked with input; otherwise chaining is expected. > 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](#chained-methods) or [nested](#nested-methods) with one another. ***Colors:*** > black — red — green — yellow — blue — magenta — cyan — white — gray — grey ***Backgrounds:*** > bgBlack — bgRed — bgGreen — bgYellow — bgBlue — bgMagenta — bgCyan — bgWhite ***Modifiers:*** > reset — bold — dim — italic* — underline — inverse — hidden — strikethrough* ^{* Not widely supported} ## Individual Colors When you only need a few colors, it doesn't make sense to import _all_ of `kleur` because, as small as it is, `kleur` is not treeshakeable, and so most of its code will be doing nothing. In order to fix this, you can import from the `kleur/colors` submodule which _fully_ supports tree-shaking. The caveat with this approach is that color functions **are not** chainable~!
Each function receives and colorizes its input. You may combine colors, backgrounds, and modifiers by nesting function calls within other functions. ```js // or: import * as kleur from 'kleur/colors'; import { red, underline, bgWhite } from 'kleur/colors'; red('red text'); //~> kleur.red('red text'); underline(red('red underlined text')); //~> kleur.underline().red('red underlined text'); bgWhite(underline(red('red underlined text w/ white background'))); //~> kleur.bgWhite().underline().red('red underlined text w/ white background'); ``` > **Note:** All the same [colors, backgrounds, and modifiers](#api) are available. ***Conditional Support*** The `kleur/colors` submodule also allows you to toggle color support, as needed.
It includes the same initial assumptions as `kleur`, in an attempt to have colors enabled by default. Unlike `kleur`, this setting exists as `kleur.$.enabled` instead of `kleur.enabled`: ```js import * as kleur from 'kleur/colors'; // or: import { $, red } from 'kleur/colors'; // manually disabled kleur.$.enabled = false; // or use another library to detect support kleur.$.enabled = require('color-support').level > 0; console.log(red('I will only be colored red if the terminal supports colors')); ``` ## Benchmarks > Using Node v10.13.0 ### Load time ``` chalk :: 5.303ms kleur :: 0.488ms kleur/colors :: 0.369ms ansi-colors :: 1.504ms ``` ### Performance ``` # All Colors ansi-colors x 177,625 ops/sec ±1.47% (92 runs sampled) chalk x 611,907 ops/sec ±0.20% (92 runs sampled) kleur x 742,509 ops/sec ±1.47% (93 runs sampled) kleur/colors x 881,742 ops/sec ±0.19% (98 runs sampled) # Stacked colors ansi-colors x 23,331 ops/sec ±1.81% (94 runs sampled) chalk x 337,178 ops/sec ±0.20% (98 runs sampled) kleur x 78,299 ops/sec ±1.01% (97 runs sampled) kleur/colors x 104,431 ops/sec ±0.22% (97 runs sampled) # Nested colors ansi-colors x 67,181 ops/sec ±1.15% (92 runs sampled) chalk x 116,361 ops/sec ±0.63% (94 runs sampled) kleur x 139,514 ops/sec ±0.76% (95 runs sampled) kleur/colors x 145,716 ops/sec ±0.97% (97 runs sampled) ``` ## History This project originally forked [`ansi-colors`](https://github.com/doowb/ansi-colors). Beginning with `kleur@3.0`, the Chalk-style syntax (magical getter) has been replaced with function calls per key: ```js // Old: c.red.bold.underline('old'); // New: c.red().bold().underline('new'); ``` > ^{As I work more with Rust, the newer syntax feels so much better & more natural!} If you prefer the old syntax, you may migrate to `ansi-colors` or newer `chalk` releases.
Versions below `kleur@3.0` have been officially deprecated. ## License MIT © [Luke Edwards](https://lukeed.com)

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