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The Chalk module is a third-party module that is used for styling the format of text and allows us to create our own themes in a node.js project.
You can use it to customize the color of the command line output and you can create your own
Installation
npm install chalk
Examples
Basic text colors
Here are various colors
const chalk=require("chalk");
console.log(chalk.red('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.blue('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.green('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.cyan('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.white('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.magenta('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.yellow('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
You should see something like this
background colors
Here are some of the background colors that are available
const chalk=require("chalk");
console.log(chalk.bgRed('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.bgBlue('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.bgGreen('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.bgCyan('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.bgBlack('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.bgMagenta('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.bgYellow('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
You should see something like this when run
Creating your own theme
This shows how to create your own custom theme
const chalk=require("chalk");
// Creating theme
const error=chalk.red;
const warning=chalk.yellow;
const good=chalk.green;
// Printing theme text
console.log(error("Error : failure message"));
console.log(warning("Warning : be careful"));
console.log(good("Good to go"));
You should see something like this when run
chalk modifiers
There are several modifiers available such as bold, italic and underline.
This is an example
const chalk=require("chalk");
console.log(chalk.bold('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.italic('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.inverse('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.underline('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.strikethrough('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
console.log(chalk.dim('http://www.maxjavascript.com/'));
Links
https://github.com/chalk/chalk