ansistyles

Functions that surround a string with ansistyle codes so it prints in style.

Installation

npm install ansistyles

Usage

1var styles = require('ansistyles');
2
3console.log(styles.bright('hello world'));    // prints hello world in 'bright' white
4console.log(styles.underline('hello world')); // prints hello world underlined
5console.log(styles.inverse('hello world'));   // prints hello world black on white

Combining with ansicolors

Get the ansicolors module:

npm install ansicolors

1var styles = require('ansistyles')
2  , colors = require('ansicolors');
3
4  console.log(
5    // prints hello world underlined in blue on a green background
6    colors.bgGreen(colors.blue(styles.underline('hello world'))) 
7  );

Tests

Look at the tests to see more examples and/or run them via:

npm explore ansistyles && npm test

More Styles

As you can see from here, more styles are available, but didn't have any effect on the terminals that I tested on Mac Lion and Ubuntu Linux.

I included them for completeness, but didn't show them in the examples because they seem to have no effect.

Alternatives

ansistyles tries to meet simple use cases with a very simple API. However, if you need a more powerful ansi formatting tool, I'd suggest to look at the features of the ansi module.