Chalk Table

chalk-table is a small terminal table tool that comes with chalk support out of the box.

It is a project I forked from @deoxxa's cool asciitable package. I've added support for chalk and a few extra fixes. In case you're wondering, it can still render simple tables with headings and pretty hyphen/pipe character-based formatting.

Install

``shell
npm i chalk-table --save
`

If you use yarn, you know how it goes. :D

Quick example:

We'll render the following ascii table:

The above example table has been built with the following code:

`javascript
const chalk = require("chalk");
const chalkTable = require("../src");

const options = {
leftPad: 2,
columns: [
{ field: "id", name: chalk.cyan("ID") },
{ field: "fruit", name: chalk.magenta("Fruit") },
{ field: "veggie", name: chalk.green("Vegetable") },
{ field: "other", name: chalk.yellow("Other") }
]
};

const table = chalkTable(options, [
{ id: 0, fruit: "🍇 Grapes", veggie: "🌽 Maize", other: "🍕 Pizza" },
{ id: 1, fruit: "🍈 Melon", veggie: "🍅 Tomato", other: "🍔 Hamburger" },
{ id: 2, fruit: "🍉 Watermelon", veggie: "🥑 Avocado", other: "🌭 Hot Dog" },
{ id: 3, fruit: "🍊 Tangerine", veggie: "🥦 Broccoli", other: "🥪 Sandwich" },
{ id: 4, fruit: "🍍 Pineapple", veggie: "🥒 Cucumber", other: "🌮 Taco" }
]);

console.log(table);
`

There are a few key differences from asciitable's default settings. For instance:
- the intersectionCharacter option defaults to a + character.
- There's an additional leftPad option which allows control over how many padding the table should be from the left of the terminal view.
- There's also no skinny option.

For more documentation or a _getting-started_ guide, head over to asciitable`'s repository.

Happy hacking!