stringTable.js

A groundbreaking, innovating JavaScript library to do something that's literally never been attempted before: formatting an array of data objects as a textual table.

1var objects = [
2  { name: 'Dan', gender: 'M', age: 29 },
3  { name: 'Adam', gender: 'M', age: 31 },
4  { name: 'Lauren', gender: 'F', age: 33 }
5];
6
7var table = stringTable.create(objects);
8
9console.log(table);
10
11/*
12 * Output:
13 *
14 * | name   | gender | age |
15 * -------------------------
16 * | Dan    | M      |  29 |
17 * | Adam   | M      |  31 |
18 * | Lauren | F      |  33 |
19 */

You can also specify options to customize how the table is formatted:

1var table = stringTable.create(objects, options);

The available options are summarized below.

Options

• headers (e.g., ['name', 'age']): an array of strings indicating which column headers to include
• formatters: an object mapping column names to formatter functions
• outerBorder (default: '|'): the character(s) used to enclose the table
• innerBorder (default: '|'): the character(s) used to delimit cells within the table