@gribnoysup/wunderbar

Have you ever wanted to print some pretty bar charts in your terminal? You are in the right place!

Wunderbar can print horisontal bar chart with legend and chart scale straight to your terminal. Or you can use it as a module in your code and get all the building blocks to print chart yourself.

Wunderbar uses partial block characters (▏▎▍▌▋▊▉█) to print the most precise charts possible:

Use in terminal

echo "[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]" | npx @gribnoysup/wunderbar --min 0

cat data.json | npx @gribnoysup/wunderbar --min 0

Use in your code

npm i --save @gribnoysup/wunderbar

const wunderbar = require('@gribnoysup/wunderbar');
const data = require('./data.json');

const printData = () => {
  const { chart, legend, scale, __raw } = wunderbar(data, {
    min: 0,
    length: 42,
  });

  console.log();
  console.log(chart);
  console.log();
  console.log(scale);
  console.log();
};

printData();

Limitations

• Wunderbar supports only node >= 6

• Wunderbar uses chalk.hex to add color to your charts. Chalk is pretty smart to downgrade the color if it is not supported by your terminal, but output may vary in different terminals.

API

wunderbar(values, [options]) ⇒ OutputValue

Param	Type	Default	Description
values	Array<InputValue>		Values to draw on a chart
[options]	Object		Chart drawing options
[options.min]	number	min value from values	Min chart value (inclusive)
[options.max]	number	max value from values	Max chart value (inclusive)
[options.length]	number	terminal width	Chart length
[options.sort]	"min" | "max" | "none" | (a: NormalizedValue, b: NormalizedValue) => number	"none"	Sort method for chart values
[options.randomColorOptions]	Object	{}	randomColor options for color generation
[options.format]	string | (a: number) => string	"0.00"	Value format method. String values are Numeral.js format strings

All options are also supported in the cli version:

echo "[1000, 3000, 5000, 7000, 9000, 11000]" | \
  npx @gribnoysup/wunderbar --min 0 --max 15000 --length 42 --sort min --randomColorOptions '{ "seed": "unicorn" }' --format "0a"

Types

InputValue : { value: number, color?: string, label?: string } | number | string

OutputValue : { legend: string, scale: string, chart: string, __raw: RawData }

RawData : { chartLength: number, minValue: number, minValueFormatted: string, maxValue: number, maxValueFormatted: string, normalizedValues: NormalizedValue[] }

NormalizedValue : { normalizedValue: number, rawValue: number, formattedValue: string, color: string, label: string, lineLength: number, chartBar: string, coloredChartBar: string }

License

MIT