chalker

Set ansi colors in strings using <> markers and chalk.

Usage

const chalker = require("chalker");
 
console.log(chalker("<red.bgGreen>Red on Green Text</>"));
 
// with template string tagging
console.log(chalker`<green>hello world</green>`);

A typical use case is to easily manage colors for logs that could go to console or log servers.

const msg = `<red>some error occurred...</red>`;
 
// log to console for visual with colors
if (!production) console.log(chalker(msg));
 
// log to log server with colors removed
logger.log(chalker.remove(msg));

Install

npm i --save chalker

Demo

Marker Details

• Color markers has the <red>red text</red> format. You can use any valid methods chalk supports.

  • For example, <blue.bold>blue bold text</blue.bold> will colorize blue bold text with chalk.blue.bold.
  • Closing marker can be simply </>

• The following HTML entities escapes are supported:

  Entity	Character	Entity	Character
  &lt;	<	&gt;	>
  &amp;	&	&nbsp;	non-breaking space
  &apos;	'	&copy;	©
  &quot;	"	&reg;	®

• HTML escape using code points also works:

  • Hex - &#xhhhh; where hhhh is the Hex code point.
  • Decimal - &#nnnn; where nnnn is the Decimal code point.
  • ie: �� makes 👩

Advanced Chalk Colors

Chalk advanced colors can be applied with:

chalk API	chalker marker	chalk API	chalker marker
chalk.rgb	<(255, 10, 20)>, <rgb(255,10,20)>	chalk.bgRgb	<bg(255, 10, 20)>, <bgRgb(255,10,20)>
chalk.hex	<#FF0000>, <hex(#FF0000)>	chalk.bgHex	<bg#0000FF>, <bgHex(#0000FF)>
chalk.keyword	<orange>, <(orange)>, <keyword(orange)>	chalk.bgKeyword	<bg-orange>, <bg(orange)>, <bgKeyword(orange)>
chalk.hsl	<hsl(32,100,50)>	chalk.bgHsl	<bgHsl(32,100,50)>
chalk.hsv	<hsv(32,100,100)>	chalk.bgHsv	<bgHsv(32,100,100)>
chalk.hwb	<hwb(32,0,50)>	chalk.bgHwb	<bgHwb(32,0,50)>

More details

• a marker is tried with chalk.keyword if:

  • it's not detected as hex value

  • it doesn't contain params enclosed in ()

  • it's not found as a basic color that chalk supports

  • for example, this is a chalk color keyword: <orange>

  • If it's prefixed with "bg-" then it's tried using chalk.bgKeyword

    • ie: <bg-orange>

• All markers can be comined with . in any order as long as they work with chalk

  • ie: <#FF0000.bg#0000FF.bg-orange.keyword(red)>

APIs

chalker

chalker(str, [chalkInstance]);

• str - String with chalker color markers
• chalkInstance - Optional custom instance of chalk.
  • ie: created from new chalk.constructor({level: 2})

Returns: A string with terminal/ansi color codes

If chalk.supportsColor is false, then it will simply remove the <> markers and decode HTML entities only.

chalker.remove

chalker.remove(str, keepHtml);

• str - String with chalker color markers
• keepHtml - If true, then don't decode HTML entity escapes.

Simply remove all chalker markers and return the plain text string, with HTML escapes decoded.

Returns: A plain text string without chalker color markers

chalker.decodeHtml

chalker.decodeHtml(str);

• str - String to decode HTML entities

Returns: String with HTML entities escapes decoded

License

Copyright (c) 2019-present, Joel Chen

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

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