fast-text-table

Rewrite of text-table in TypeScript, making it faster and smaller.

Install

npm install fast-text-table

Usage

import table from "fast-text-table";
// or
const table = require("fast-text-table");

const t = table([
  ["master", "0123456789abcdef"],
  ["staging", "fedcba9876543210"],
]);
console.log(t);

Output:

master   0123456789abcdef
staging  fedcba9876543210

left-right align

table(
  [
    ["beep", "1024"],
    ["boop", "33450"],
    ["foo", "1006"],
    ["bar", "45"],
  ],
  { align: ["l", "r"] }
);

beep   1024
boop  33450
foo    1006
bar      45

dotted align

table(
  [
    ["beep", "1024"],
    ["boop", "334.212"],
    ["foo", "1006"],
    ["bar", "45.6"],
    ["baz", "123."],
  ],
  { align: ["l", "."] }
);

beep  1024
boop   334.212
foo   1006
bar     45.6
baz    123.

centered

table(
  [
    ["beep", "1024", "xyz"],
    ["boop", "3388450", "tuv"],
    ["foo", "10106", "qrstuv"],
    ["bar", "45", "lmno"],
  ],
  { align: ["l", "c", "l"] }
);

beep    1024   xyz
boop  3388450  tuv
foo    10106   qrstuv
bar      45    lmno

API

table(rows, [opts])

• rows any[][] - Array of rows to format.
• opts object - Optional options object.
  • opts.hsep string - Horizontal separator. Default: " ".
  • opts.align string[] - Array of alignment types for each column. Default: ["l", "l", ..., "l"].
    • l - Left
    • r - Right
    • c - Center
    • . - Dotted
  • opts.stringLength function - Custom string length function. Default: s => s.length.

Benchmarks

clk: ~3.85 GHz
cpu: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13400F
runtime: node 26.5.0 (x64-win32)

benchmark                   avg (min … max) p75 / p99    (min … top 1%)
------------------------------------------- -------------------------------
• table - small dataset
------------------------------------------- -------------------------------
fast-text-table                4.87 µs/iter   5.34 µs   5.81 µs ▄█▄▂▁▁▁▂▂▂▂
text-table-fast                5.53 µs/iter   5.52 µs   6.29 µs ▆█▆▂▃▁▁▁▃▂▂
text-table                    20.81 µs/iter  20.90 µs  21.05 µs ▅▅▅▁▅▁██▅▅▅

summary
  fast-text-table
   1.14x faster than text-table-fast
   4.27x faster than text-table

• table - middle dataset
------------------------------------------- -------------------------------
fast-text-table              250.80 µs/iter 272.70 µs 414.30 µs ▁▅▆█▇▄▃▂▁▁▁
text-table-fast              313.86 µs/iter 321.10 µs 462.90 µs ▂█▆▅▂▂▂▁▁▂▁
text-table                     7.13 ms/iter   7.20 ms   8.36 ms ▃█▇▄▃▂▂▁▁▁▂

summary
  fast-text-table
   1.25x faster than text-table-fast
   28.42x faster than text-table

• table - large dataset
------------------------------------------- -------------------------------
fast-text-table                5.67 ms/iter   5.75 ms   6.89 ms ▂▆█▅▂▂▂▁▁▁▁
text-table-fast               26.08 ms/iter  26.53 ms  27.40 ms ▂█▇█▇▂▄▇▃▁▂
text-table                      5.77 s/iter    5.88 s    5.93 s ▆▆▁▁▁▁▁▃▆█▃

summary
  fast-text-table
   4.6x faster than text-table-fast
   1018.77x faster than text-table

License

MIT