Intuitive package for prettifying terminal/console output. http://godoc.org/github.com/ttacon/chalk

Overview

chalk

Chalk is a go package for styling console/terminal output.

Check out godoc for some example usage: http://godoc.org/github.com/ttacon/chalk

The api is pretty clean, there are default Colors and TextStyles which can be mixed to create more intense Styles. Styles and Colors can be printed in normal strings (i.e. fmt.Sprintf(chalk.Red)), but Styles, Colors and TextStyles are more meant to be used to style specific text segments (i.e. fmt.Println(chalk.Red.Color("this is red")) or fmt.Println(myStyle.Style("this is blue text that is underlined"))).

Examples

There are a few examples in the examples directory if you want to see a very simplified version of what you can do with chalk.

The following code:

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/ttacon/chalk"
)

func main() {
	// You can just use colors
	fmt.Println(chalk.Red, "Writing in colors", chalk.Cyan, "is so much fun", chalk.Reset)
	fmt.Println(chalk.Magenta.Color("You can use colors to color specific phrases"))

	// You can just use text styles
	fmt.Println(chalk.Bold.TextStyle("We can have bold text"))
	fmt.Println(chalk.Underline.TextStyle("We can have underlined text"))
	fmt.Println(chalk.Bold, "But text styles don't work quite like colors :(")

	// Or you can use styles
	blueOnWhite := chalk.Blue.NewStyle().WithBackground(chalk.White)
	fmt.Printf("%s%s%s\n", blueOnWhite, "And they also have backgrounds!", chalk.Reset)
	fmt.Println(
		blueOnWhite.Style("You can style strings the same way you can color them!"))
	fmt.Println(
		blueOnWhite.WithTextStyle(chalk.Bold).
			Style("You can mix text styles with colors, too!"))

	// You can also easily make styling functions thanks to go's functional side
	lime := chalk.Green.NewStyle().
		WithBackground(chalk.Black).
		WithTextStyle(chalk.Bold).
		Style
	fmt.Println(lime("look at this cool lime text!"))
}

Outputs screenshot

WARNING

This package should be pretty stable (I don't forsee backwards incompatible changes), but I'm not making any promises :)

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Comments
  • Explictly do not support Windows, avoid error codes

    Explictly do not support Windows, avoid error codes

    The Windows console does not support the same ANSI character codes, so when they are printed out it ends up looking like gibberish characters.

    This PR avoids this by simply returning blank strings for the functions. This removes all color syntax for windows builds only.

    Explanation for setting up platform conditional builds is here: https://dave.cheney.net/2013/10/12/how-to-use-conditional-compilation-with-the-go-build-tool


    This change is Reviewable

    opened by mkaz 0
  • Disabling colors for less and non-terminals

    Disabling colors for less and non-terminals

    Any suggestions on how to disable colors when the output is not to a terminal that supports color?

    I can use golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/terminal's terminal.IsTerminal to detect it, but not sure how to go about modifying chalk to support this. Ideally I'd like to add color in my code, and then have chalk return nothing when it detects this so I don't have to write a colored and non-colored version.

    I tried overwriting the colors (chalk.Black, chalk.Red etc) from my project but that doesn't seem to work correctly.

    opened by trashcan 8
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