nanocolors
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DEPRECATED: Use
picocolors instead.
It is 3 times smaller and 50% faster.
The space in node_modules including sub-dependencies:
- nanocolors 16 kB
+ picocolors 7 kB
Library loading time:
- nanocolors 0.885 ms
+ picocolors 0.470 ms
Benchmark for complex use cases:
- nanocolors 1,088,193 ops/sec
+ picocolors 1,772,265 ops/sec
Read full docs on GitHub.
Chalk is a popular library for styling terminal output. It offers a rich API for applying colors and text effects. Compared to Nanocolors, Chalk has a larger footprint but provides more features and customization options.
Colors is another library for adding color and style to terminal output. It is similar to Nanocolors in terms of functionality but is slightly larger in size. Colors also provides a more extensive set of features.
CLI-Color is a library for styling terminal output with colors and effects. It is comparable to Nanocolors in terms of performance and size, but offers a different API and additional features like progress bars and tables.
FAQs
4x times faster than chalk and use 5x less space in node_modules
The npm package nanocolors receives a total of 266,729 weekly downloads. As such, nanocolors popularity was classified as popular.
We found that nanocolors demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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