piui

Printable UI for Console

Description

piui is a UI (user interface) toolkit for console. The name piui is abbreviation of PrIntable User Interface.

ToC

• Get Started
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Get Started

// Require the whole toolkit.
const piui = require('piui');
 
// Or, require a standalone component.
const table = require('piui/table');
 
const rows = [
    { name: 'Ch-ing', age: 11, gender: 'female' },
    { name: 'Ching', age: 18, gender: 'male' },
];
const columns = [
    { name: 'name', title: 'Name', size: 9 },
    { name: 'age', title: 'Age', align: 'right' },
    { name: 'gender', title: 'Gender', formatter: t => t.toUpperCase() },
];
table.print(rows, { columns });

Components

• piui/table
  Create a printable table or print a table directly in console.
  

About

piui grew out of jinang/table and yuan-console. jinang is an incubator prevent sub modules from depending on 3rd packages. And yuan-console is too heavy for those who only wanna display simple components (e.g. a table or a progress bar) in their cli programs. That is why piui is generated.