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ink

Terminal string color for deno

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Run the welcome page for interactive demo:

deno -A https://deno.land/x/ink/welcome.ts

Examples

import * as ink from 'https://deno.land/x/ink/mod.ts'

let text = ink.colorize('<red>Hello World</red>')
console.log(text)

Output:

- Hello World

You can use nested style:

import * as ink from 'https://deno.land/x/ink/mod.ts'

let text = ink.colorize('<bg-blue><red>Hello World</bg-blue></red>')

console.log(text)

Support tags [Simple Mode]

  • <b>: bold

  • <i>: italic

  • <u>: underline

  • <s>: strikethrough

  • <hidden>: hidden text

  • <inv>: inverted color

  • <dim>: dim light

  • <u>: underline

  • <red>: text red

  • <green>: text green

  • <blue>: text blue

  • <yellow>: text yellow

  • <magenta>: text magenta

  • <cyan>: text cyan

  • <white>: text white

  • <black>: text black

  • <bg-red>: background red

  • <bg-green>: background green

  • <bg-blue>: background blue

  • <bg-yellow>: background yellow

  • <bg-magenta>: background magenta

  • <bg-cyan>: background cyan

  • <bg-white>: background white

  • <bg-black>: background black

Alias to console

You can use the object terminal to call console.log, console.trace … directly form ink module.

import * as ink from 'https://deno.land/x/ink/mod.ts'

ink.terminal.log('<red>Hello</red> %s', '<b>World</b>')

Advanced mode

You can use html like style for advanced and nested mode using the ink tag:

import * as ink from 'https://deno.land/x/ink/mod.ts'

let result = ink.html("<ink style='color: #ff0000;font:bold;'>Hello World</ink>")
console.log(result);

ink also supports nested styles:

let html = `
<ink style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: #00ff00;font: underline, bold">
    I'm Red, background Green, underlined and bold! 
    <ink style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font: italic;">
        My BG is black again, but I'm italic :(
    </ink>
    My BG is Green Again!
</ink>
No Format here
`

let result = ink.html(html)
console.log(result);

Output:

output

String Extension

ink also supports string extension:

import "https://deno.land/x/ink/mod.ts" //Import .toColor() extension

console.log("<ink style='color: #ff0000; font: bold'>Hello Deno</ink>".toColor())

Supported Styles

  • color: Hex Or RGB [#ff0000, rgb(0, 255, 0) …]
  • background-color: Hex Or RGB [#ff0000, rgb(0, 255, 0) …]
  • font: comma separated values [bold, dim, italic, underline, inverse, hidden, strikethrough]

Draw Image

Ink module also can draw a JPEG image from local or remote source into the terminal:

import * as ink from "./mod.ts"

await ink.drawImage("https://placekitten.com/50/50")

output

License

MIT