rallph/color-echo

A simple node.js tool for printing colored output to the terminal

Color Echo

A simple node.js utility for printing colored output to the terminal

Originally made for practice with node.js

Currently supports CSS keywords and hex color codes

Usage

Usage:
  colorecho.js [OPTIONS] [ARGS]

Options: 
  -c, --color [STRING]   The keyword for the color to be applied to the provided 
                         text  (Default is orange)
  -h, --hex STRING       The hex code of the color to be applied to the provided 
                         text. Do not include #

Examples:

./colorecho.js testing -c red 

prints "testing" in the color red on a new line

./colorecho.js testing -h 32dbc6

prints "testing" in the color with hex code #322dbc (a cyan color). Note that the # symbol must be absent.

Future plans

• Support rgb, hsl color modes
• Support using a default color defined in a file
• Support piping input from stdout

Made by Ralph Nahra

color-echo's Issues

Add support for piping from stdout

Add support for piping input into color-cli.js from the stdout of another process

Add HSL support

Add support for defining colors using the hue, saturation, lightness color model.

Reverts to default color when using # symbol with hex color code

If the # symbol is included with the hex color code when using color-cli.js with the --hex option, color-cli reverts to using the default hardcoded color. This seems to be a result of the cli.parse failing to identify a string if the # symbol is present at the beginning. A bug report with the upstream package may be necessary.

Example

./colorcli.js test -h df4d19

prints the text in the specified hex color code fine.

./colorcli.js test -h #df4d19

prints the text in the default color specified in --color's parameters.

Add RGB support

Add support for using RGB representations of colors to specify colors for the text. Parsing the numbers may be problematic as cli.parse has limited capability. Parsing the RGB numbers as strings or using a different option for each of the RGB triplets is possible but not ideal.