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ansi-colors

Contributing

> Easily add ANSI colors to your text and symbols in the terminal. A faster drop-in replacement for chalk, kleur and turbocolor (without the dependencies and rendering bugs).

Please consider following this project's author, Brian Woodward, and consider starring the project to show your :heart: and support.

# Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save ansi-colors

# Why use this?

ansi-colors is the fastest Node.js library for terminal styling. A more performant drop-in replacement for chalk, with no dependencies.

- Blazing fast - Fastest terminal styling library in node.js, 10-20x faster than chalk!
- Drop-in replacement for chalk.
- No dependencies (Chalk has 7 dependencies in its tree!)
- Safe - Does not modify the `String.prototype` like colors.
- Supports nested colors, and does not have the nested styling bug that is present in colorette, chalk, and kleur.
- Supports chained colors.
- Toggle color support on or off.

# Usage

const c = require('ansi-colors');
console.log(c.red('This is a red string!'));
console.log(c.green('This is a red string!'));
console.log(c.cyan('This is a cyan string!'));
console.log(c.yellow('This is a yellow string!'));

# Chained colors

console.log(c.bold.red('this is a bold red message'));
console.log(c.bold.yellow.italic('this is a bold yellow italicized message'));
console.log(c.green.bold.underline('this is a bold green underlined message'));

# Nested colors

console.log(c.yellow(`foo ${c.red.bold('red')} bar ${c.cyan('cyan')} baz`));

## Nested styling bug

`ansi-colors` does not have the nested styling bug found in colorette, chalk, and kleur.

const { bold, red } = require('ansi-styles');
console.log(bold(`foo ${red.dim('bar')} baz`));
const colorette = require('colorette');
console.log(colorette.bold(`foo ${colorette.red(colorette.dim('bar'))} baz`));
const kleur = require('kleur');
console.log(kleur.bold(`foo ${kleur.red.dim('bar')} baz`));
const chalk = require('chalk');
console.log(chalk.bold(`foo ${chalk.red.dim('bar')} baz`));

Results in the following

(sans icons and labels)

# Toggle color support

Easily enable/disable colors.

const c = require('ansi-colors');
// disable colors manually
c.enabled = false;
// or use a library to automatically detect support
c.enabled = require('color-support').hasBasic;
console.log(c.red('I will only be colored red if the terminal supports colors'));

# Strip ANSI codes

Use the `.unstyle` method to strip ANSI codes from a string.

console.log(c.unstyle(c.blue.bold('foo bar baz')));
//=> 'foo bar baz'

# Available styles

Note that bright and bright-background colors are not always supported.

Colors | Background Colors | Bright Colors | Bright Background Colors
--- | --- | --- | ---
black | bgBlack | blackBright | bgBlackBright
red | bgRed | redBright | bgRedBright
green | bgGreen | greenBright | bgGreenBright
yellow | bgYellow | yellowBright | bgYellowBright
blue | bgBlue | blueBright | bgBlueBright
magenta | bgMagenta | magentaBright | bgMagentaBright
cyan | bgCyan | cyanBright | bgCyanBright
white | bgWhite | whiteBright | bgWhiteBright
gray |  |  |
grey |  |  |

_(`gray` is the U.S. spelling, `grey` is more commonly used in the Canada and U.K.)_

## Style modifiers

- dim
- bold
- hidden
- italic
- underline
- inverse
- strikethrough
- reset

# Performance

Libraries tested

- ansi-colors v3.0.4
- chalk v2.4.1

## Mac

> MacBook Pro, Intel Core i7, 2.3 GHz, 16 GB.

Load time

Time it takes to load the first time `require()` is called:

- ansi-colors - `1.915ms`
- chalk - `12.437ms`

Benchmarks

# All Colors
ansi-colors x 173,851 ops/sec ±0.42% (91 runs sampled)
chalk x 9,944 ops/sec ±2.53% (81 runs sampled)))
# Chained colors
ansi-colors x 20,791 ops/sec ±0.60% (88 runs sampled)
chalk x 2,111 ops/sec ±2.34% (83 runs sampled)
# Nested colors
ansi-colors x 59,304 ops/sec ±0.98% (92 runs sampled)
chalk x 4,590 ops/sec ±2.08% (82 runs sampled)

## Windows

> Windows 10, Intel Core i7-7700k CPU @ 4.2 GHz, 32 GB

Load time

Time it takes to load the first time `require()` is called:

- ansi-colors - `1.494ms`
- chalk - `11.523ms`

Benchmarks

# All Colors
ansi-colors x 193,088 ops/sec ±0.51% (95 runs sampled))
chalk x 9,612 ops/sec ±3.31% (77 runs sampled)))
# Chained colors
ansi-colors x 26,093 ops/sec ±1.13% (94 runs sampled)
chalk x 2,267 ops/sec ±2.88% (80 runs sampled))
# Nested colors
ansi-colors x 67,747 ops/sec ±0.49% (93 runs sampled)
chalk x 4,446 ops/sec ±3.01% (82 runs sampled))

# About

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Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

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Running Tests

Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:

$ npm install && npm test

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Building docs

_(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)_

To generate the readme, run the following command:

$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb

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## Related projects

You might also be interested in these projects:

- ansi-wrap: Create ansi colors by passing the open and close codes. | homepage
- strip-color: Strip ANSI color codes from a string. No dependencies. | homepage

## Contributors

Commits | Contributor
--- | ---
42 | doowb
38 | jonschlinkert
6 | lukeed
2 | Silic0nS0ldier
1 | dwieeb
1 | jorgebucaran
1 | madhavarshney
1 | chapterjason

## Author

Brian Woodward

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## License

Copyright © 2019, Brian Woodward. Released under the [MIT License](LICENSE).

This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.8.0, on March 03, 2019.