A cored, fixed, documented and optimized version of the popular `colors.js`: Get colors in your node.js console like what...
npm install colour!colour.js - ANSI terminal colors
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A cored, fixed, documented and optimized version of the popular colors.js. Can be
used as a drop-in replacement, also works correctly in the browser, provides a CSS mode and has been compiled through
Closure Compiler using advanced optimizations. Additionally, nearly every issue and pull request on the original has
been incorporated.
Installation
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npm install colour
Usage
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This package extends the global String prototype with additional getters that apply terminal colors to your texts.
Available styles are:
* Emphasis: bold, italic, underline, inverse
* Colors: yellow, cyan, white, magenta, green, red, grey, blue
* Sequencers: rainbow, zebra, random
#### Example
``js
`
var colour = require('colour');
console.log('hello'.green); // outputs green text
console.log('i like cake and pies'.underline.red) // outputs red underlined text
console.log('inverse the color'.inverse); // inverses the color
console.log('OMG Rainbows!'.rainbow); // rainbow (ignores spaces)
colors
#### Or: As a drop-in replacement for
`js
`
var / just name it / colors = require('colour');
...
`
Custom themes
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Its also possible to define your own themes by creating new getters on the String object. Example:
js
`
var colour = require('colour');
colour.setTheme({
silly: 'rainbow',
input: 'grey',
verbose: 'cyan',
prompt: 'grey',
info: 'green',
data: 'grey',
help: 'cyan',
warn: ['yellow', 'underline'], // Applies two styles at once
debug: 'blue',
error: 'red bold' // Again, two styles
});
console.log("this is an error".error); // outputs bold red text
console.log("this is a warning".warn); // outputs underlined yellow text
console.log(colour.green("this is green")); // Alternatively
`
Console, browser and browser-css mode
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js
`
var colour = require('colour');
...
colour.mode = 'none'; // No colors at all
colour.mode = 'console'; // Adds terminal colors (default on node.js)
colour.mode = 'browser'; // Adds HTML colors (default in browsers)
colour.mode = 'browser-css'; // Adds special CSS (see examples/example.css)
`
Uninstalling / reinstalling on the global scope
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If you have a reason to use a fresh String prototype in your application, you may also revert all extensions made.
js
``
var colour = require('colour');
...
colour.uninstall(); // Removes all custom properties from the String prototype
...
colour.install(); // Re-installs them
...
More features
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* node.js/CommonJS compatible
* RequireJS/AMD compatible
* Browser/shim compatible
* Closure Compiler externs included
* Zero dependencies
Credits
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Based on work started by Marak (Marak Squires), cloudhead (Alexis Sellier), mmalecki (Maciej Małecki), nicoreed (Nico
Reed), morganrallen (Morgan Allen), JustinCampbell (Justin Campbell) and ded (Dustin Diaz).
License
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The MIT-License (MIT)