README.npm-src.md

ANSI Styling

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Colorize terminal with ANSI colors & styles, smaller and faster alternative to Chalk.

🚀 Install and Quick Start

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Usage

import ansis, { red, green, black, ansi256, hex } from 'ansis';

ansis.cyan('file')
green('Ok')
red`Error`
black.bgYellow`Warning`
ansi256(214)`Orange`
hex('#E0115F').bold('TrueColor')

Highlights

• Supports ESM, CJS, TypeScript, Bun, Deno, Next.JS
• Named import: import ansis, { red, bold, hex } from 'ansis'
• Chained syntax: red.bold.underline('text')
• Nested template strings: red`RED ${green`GREEN`} RED`
• ANSI styles: dim bold italic underline strikethrough
• ANSI 16 colors: red`Error!` redBright`Error!` bgRed`Error!` bgRedBright`Error!`
• ANSI 256 colors: fg(56)`violet` bg(208)`orange`
• TrueColor: rgb(224, 17, 95)`Ruby` hex('#96C')`Amethyst`
• Color fallback: TrueColor → 256 colors → 16 colors → no colors
• Raw ANSI codes: `foo ${red.open}bar{red.close} foo`
• Strip ANSI codes: ansis.strip()
• Detect color support: ansis.isSupported()
• Supports CLI: NO_COLOR FORCE_COLOR --no-color --color
• Correct style break at the end of line when used \n
• Doesn't extend String.prototype
• No dependencies