Fork Colours
A brand new, not another, special and fast Node.js library to ANSI colors to terminal output.
Started as a fork of @ai's
nanocolors
, which is a fork of @jorgebucaran’scolorette
with hacks from @lukeed’skleur
.
Key features:
- This library was inspired by many other unique libraries
- It is faster than alternatives
- It is British friendly: Tiny Colours not Colors
- It is a fork of fork
- It is one-liner program
- Total files: 7
- Package size: 4.6 kB
- Unpacked size: 14.9 kB
Also:
- It is 4 times faster than
chalk
for simple use cases. -
No dependencies. It takes 5 times less space in
node_modules
thanchalk
. - Auto-detects color support. You can also toggle color mode manually.
- Tree-shakable. We use a dual [ESM]/[CJS] package.
- Supports Node.js ≥ 6 and universal Node.js/browser projects.
import { green, bold } from 'forkcolours'
console.log(
green(`Task ${bold('1')} was finished`)
)
Inspired by
- Nanocolors by @ai
- Colorette by @jorgebucaran
- Kleur by @lukeed
- Colors.js by @Marak
- Chalk by @sindresorhus
- And many more...
Real-time Benchmarks
Run node test/simple-benchmark.js
chalk 27,865,695 ops/sec
cli-color 320,071 ops/sec
ansi-colors 1,454,343 ops/sec
kleur 69,030,393 ops/sec
kleur/colors 61,530,806 ops/sec
felt-pen 21,725,908 ops/sec
colorette 18,321,149 ops/sec
nanocolors 7,978,665 ops/sec
forkcolours 18,935,821 ops/sec 🚀
Run node test/complex-benchmark.js
chalk 7,265,255 ops/sec
cli-color 216,698 ops/sec
ansi-colors 610,524 ops/sec
kleur 11,316,157 ops/sec
kleur/colors 11,019,217 ops/sec
felt-pen 7,388,171 ops/sec
colorette 1,487,709 ops/sec
nanocolors 1,463,641 ops/sec
forkcolours 1,537,279 ops/sec 🚀
Run node test/loading.cjs
chalk 8.838 ms
cli-color 47.355 ms
ansi-colors 4.199 ms
kleur 5.217 ms
kleur/colors 1.824 ms
felt-pen 0.715 ms
colorette 1.515 ms
nanocolors 0.917 ms
forkcolours 0.763 ms 🚀
Run node test/size.js
chalk 101 kB
cli-color 1249 kB
ansi-colors 25 kB
kleur 21 kB
felt-pen 10 kB
colorette 16 kB
nanocolors 16 kB
forkcolours 16 kB 🚀
Run node test/colorette-benchmark.js
chalk × 6,570,253 ops/sec
kleur × 10,115,512 ops/sec
ansi-colors × 202,788 ops/sec
colorette × 459,384 ops/sec
nanocolors × 435,993 ops/sec
forkcolours × 469,867 ops/sec 🚀
chalk
Replacing -
Replace import and use named exports:
- import chalk from 'chalk' + import { red, bold } from 'forkcolours'
-
Unprefix calls:
- chalk.red(text) + red(text)
-
Replace chains to nested calls:
- chalk.red.bold(text) + red(bold(text))
API
Individual Colors
Fork Colours exports functions:
Colors | Background Colors | Modifiers |
---|---|---|
black |
bgBlack |
dim |
red |
bgRed |
bold |
green |
bgGreen |
hidden |
yellow |
bgYellow |
italic |
blue |
bgBlue |
underline |
magenta |
bgMagenta |
|
cyan |
bgCyan |
reset |
white |
bgWhite |
|
gray |
Functions are not chainable. You need to wrap it inside each other:
import { black, bgYellow } from 'forkcolours'
console.log(bgYellow(black(' WARN ')))
Functions will use colors only if Fork Colours auto-detect that current environment supports colors.
You can get support level in isColorSupported
:
import { isColorSupported } from 'forkcolours'
if (isColorSupported) {
console.log('With colors')
}
Conditional Support
You can manually switch colors on/off and override color support auto-detection:
import { createColors } from 'forkcolours'
const { red } = createColors(options.enableColors)
On undefined
argument, createColors
will use value
from color support auto-detection.