chalk-with-markers v2.1.1

Chalk with Markers -- for the 💖 of 💄 ASCII art 🤙

I. Love. ASCII. Art. Seriously I can't make a NodeJS CLI or Chatbot without adding a decent splash-screen to it. That's why I love Chalk. But creating those strings got a little too verbose, that's why I created this lib.

Note: we've upgraded to ESM, as Chalk is also in ESM.

import { asciiArtChalker } from "chalk-with-markers";

console.log(asciiArtChalker.colorize(`

b   ______g__  __y____o__    r__ __
b  / ____/g / / /y  _/o /   r/ //_/
b / /   g/ /_/ /y/ /o/ /   r/ ,<   
b/ /___g/ __  /y/ /o/ /___r/ /| |  
b\\____/g_/ /_/y___/o_____/r_/ |_|  

`));

Note: I use the TAAG by patorjk to generate the art.

This lib should just:

• be light weight & extendable
• provide readable, non-verbose markers

Text highlight

If you want to highlight text, we use the default chalker like this:

import { chalker } from "chalk-with-markers";

console.log("Results:");
console.log(chalker.colorize("- Checked status for [y]KeesTalksTech[/], website is [g]online[/]."));
console.log(chalker.colorize("- Checked status for [y]Recipes[/], website is [r]offline[/]."));

It produces:

Default color markings

We have the following:

color	HTML name	HEX	chalker marker	asciiArtChalker marker	notes
	red	FF0000	[r]	r
	lime	00FF00	[g]	g
	light blue	0080FF	[b]	b
	yellow	FFFF00	[y]	y
	magenta	FF00FF	[m]	m
	cyan	00FFFF	[c]	c
	orange	FFA500	[o]	o
	light violet	FFFFFF	[p]	p
	white	FFFFFF	[w]	w
	black	000000	[k]	k
			[q] or [/]	q	resets chalk

Own mappings

Can I make my own markers? Yes, you can!

import { Chalker } from "chalk-with-markers";
import chalk from "chalk";

const x = new Chalker();
x.set("[r]", chalk.bgRed.black);
x.set("[w]", chalk.bgWhite.black);
x.set("[b]", chalk.bgBlue.black);
x.set("[/]", chalk.reset);

console.log(x.colorize(`
[r] X X X X 
[w]  X X X  
[b] X X X X 
[/]         `));

It produces:

Extend

Can I extend the mappings? Yes you can!

import { asciiArtChalker } from "chalk-with-markers";
import chalk from "chalk";

// global extend:
asciiArtChalker.set("p", chalk.hex("#FFC0CB")); // add HTML pink

// or clone to use extend locally:
const x = asciiArtChalker.clone();
x.set("p", chalk.hex("#FFC0CB")); // add HTML pink