Table Writer

Generate ASCII table

Features

• Automatic wrap
  • Line breaks if the number of words is greater than terminal width
• Automatic padding
• Choose predefined table styles
  • simple
  • grid

Installtion

npm i table-writer

or

yarn add table-writer

Usage

Basic

import { Table } from 'table-writer';

const table = new Table([
  ['header1', 'header2', 'header3'],
  ['row11', 'row12', 'row13'],
  ['row21', 'row22', 'row33']
]);
console.log(table.write());

 header1  header2  header3
---------------------------
 row11    row12    row13
 row21    row22    row33

Change table style

import { Table } from 'table-writer';

const table = new Table([
  ['header1', 'header2', 'header3'],
  ['row11', 'row12', 'row13'],
  ['row21', 'row22', 'row33']
], { style: 'grid' });
console.log(table.write());

API

class Table

constructor(rows [, options])

• rows
  • string[][] (TableRows)
  • text context of table
  • rows[0][0] is treated as table header
• options
  • object (TableOptions)
  • see options

options

	Required	Default	Description
style	No	simple	Predefined table style. See following Table Styles
format	No	N/A	Customize table style.
width	No	process.stdout.columns	Maximum terminal width.

add(row): void

Add a row to existing table rows. Treat table header if no talbe rows.

• row
  • string[] (TableRow)
  • a row of table

write(): string

Render table.

Table Styles

Simple

 A          AAAAAAAAA          AAAAAAAAAA
--------------------------------------------------
 BBBBBBBBB  BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB  BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
 BB         BB                 BB
 CCCCCCCCC  CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC  CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
 CCCCCCCCC  CCCCCCCCCCCC       CCCCCCCCCCCC
 CCC

Grid

+-----------+-------------------+--------------------+
| A         | AAAAAAAAA         | AAAAAAAAAA         |
+===========+===================+====================+
| BBBBBBBBB | BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB | BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB |
| BB        | BB                | BB                 |
+-----------+-------------------+--------------------+
| CCCCCCCCC | CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC | CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC |
| CCCCCCCCC | CCCCCCCCCCCC      | CCCCCCCCCCCC       |
| CCC       |                   |                    |
+-----------+-------------------+--------------------+