4.1 KiB
Nano Colors
A tiny and fast Node.js library for formatting terminal text with ANSI colors.
- It is 2 times faster than
chalk
. Both loading and calls. - No dependencies. It takes 5 times less space in
node_modules
thanchalk
. - Actively maintained. Used in many big projects like PostCSS or Browserslist.
- Auto-detects color support. You can also toggle color mode manually.
- Tree-shakable. We use a dual ESM/CJS package.
- Supports Node.js ≥ 6, Deno and universal Node.js/browser projects.
import { green, bold } from 'nanocolors'
console.log(
green(`Task ${bold('1')} was finished`)
)
API was heavily inspired
by @jorgebucaran’s
colorette
with few cool hacks
copied from @lukeed’s
kleur
.
Benchmarks
Function calling time:
$ ./test/benchmark.js
chalk 11,608,010 ops/sec
cli-color 752,419 ops/sec
ansi-colors 3,601,857 ops/sec
kleur 15,185,239 ops/sec
kleur/colors 21,113,231 ops/sec
colorette 19,712,884 ops/sec
nanocolors 21,176,376 ops/sec
Library loading time:
$ ./test/loading.js
chalk 3.465 ms
cli-color 21.849 ms
ansi-colors 1.101 ms
kleur 1.628 ms
kleur/colors 0.508 ms
colorette 2.610 ms
nanocolors 0.486 ms
The space in node_modules
including sub-dependencies:
$ ./test/size.js
Data from packagephobia.com
chalk 101 kB
cli-color 1249 kB
ansi-colors 25 kB
kleur 21 kB
colorette 16 kB
nanocolors 16 kB
Test configuration: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9, Fedora 34, Node.js 16.8.
Replacing chalk
-
Replace import and use named exports:
- import chalk from 'chalk' + import { red, bold } from 'nanocolors'
-
Unprefix calls:
- chalk.red(text) + red(text)
-
Replace chains to nested calls:
- chalk.red.bold(text) + red(bold(text))
API
Individual Colors
Nano Colors 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 'nanocolors'
console.log(bgYellow(black(' WARN ')))
Functions will use colors only if Nano Colors auto-detect that current environment supports colors.
You can get support level in isColorSupported
:
import { isColorSupported } from 'nanocolors'
if (isColorSupported) {
console.log('With colors')
}
Conditional Support
You can manually switch colors on/off and override color support auto-detection:
import { createColors } from 'nanocolors'
const { red } = createColors(options.enableColors)
On undefined
argument, createColors
will use value
from color support auto-detection.
Deno
Nano Colors has build-in Deno support.
import { red } from 'https://deno.land/x/nanocolors/mod.ts'