Kocheda CLI Utils

This library provides some simple command line interface utilities.

Example Usage

npm install kochedacliutils

Then in code

const cliutils = require("kochedacliutils");

console.log(cliutils.COLOURS.blue + "This is blue" + cliutils.COlOURS.clear);

Console Colours

An object called 'COLOURS' provides the following console escape codes to generate colour:

COLOURS.black
COLOURS.red
COLOURS.green
COLOURS.yellow
COLOURS.blue
COLOURS.magenta
COLOURS.cyan
COLOURS.white
COLOURS.boldblack
COLOURS.boldred
COLOURS.boldgreen
COLOURS.boldyellow
COLOURS.boldblue
COLOURS.boldmagenta
COLOURS.boldcyan
COLOURS.boldwhite
COLOURS.clear

Table Generation

The arrayToTable() function converts 2 dimensional arrays into a formatted string which will display as an aligned table in the console along with optional lines. The function provides the following:

• All cells in table are aligned/padded
• Configurable cell padding
• Optional lines
• Missing cell data in rows is automatically added
• Non-string cell content is stringified

Examples

The simplest example is just a 2 dimensional array of content:

console.log(module.exports.arrayToTable([["Cell 1", "Cell 2", "Cell 3"], ["Example", "This is longer content", 12345],, ["JSON content", "Stringified", {"hello":"world"}]]));

 Cell 1        Cell 2                  Cell 3            
 Example       This is longer content  12345             
 JSON content  Stringified             {"hello":"world"} 

And the same data with lines and additional padding:

console.log(module.exports.arrayToTable([["Cell 1", "Cell 2", "Cell 3"], ["Example", "This is longer content", 12345],, ["JSON content", "Stringified", {"hello":"world"}]], {lines:true, padding:4}));

┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
│    Cell 1          │    Cell 2                    │    Cell 3               │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│    Example         │    This is longer content    │    12345                │
├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│    JSON content    │    Stringified               │    {"hello":"world"}    │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘