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Maintainer of Chalk[0][1] here, a very popular alternative to colors. Happy to help anyone that would like to port away from colors to chalk, or who might just

by junon 5y ago

Maintainer of Chalk[0][1] here, a very popular alternative to colors. Happy to help anyone that would like to port away from colors to chalk, or who might just have general questions about terminal colors. Just reply here and I'll see them. [0] https://GitHub.com/chalk/chalk https://GitHub.com/chalk/chalk [1] https://npmjs.org/package/chalk https://npmjs.org/package/chalk

dimgl 5y ago
I love Chalk! I didn't realize it came after colors. Thanks for maintaining this package.
feupan 5y ago
Is a codemod available for anyone who wants to migrate?
- junon 5y ago
  Not at the moment, but the migration should be pretty straightforward if you don't use the more elaborate color functions from `colors` (e.g. we don't have things like "zebra"). If you use `require('colors/safe')` and only use the basic colors, then Chalk is more or less a drop-in replacement. If you use the property values (e.g. `"my string".green`) then you'll need to change that to `chalk.green("my string")`.
  - jwalton 5y ago
    One thing worth noting is that chalk 5 is ESM only, so if you’re using commonjs, you’ll need to use chalk 4, or transpire it with Babel, or something…
peterangular 5y ago
I use the hell out of chalk and I just want to say thank you for creating/maintaining a solid product. Seeing this is scary to us who still unfortunately have dependencies with Node/npm. Thank you so much for what you do.
pkgland 5y ago
Not a question but just want to help developers who needs it: pkg.land (beta) finds similar packages on NPM. Here are the links for colors and faker: https://pkg.land/package/colors https://pkg.land/package/colors (chalk is top suggestion!) https://pkg.land/package/faker https://pkg.land/package/faker
- DandyDev 5y ago
  This is very cool. Sad that it only works for NPM packages. Would love this for PyPI packages
mazlix 5y ago
Never used colorjs, have used chalk in my OSS projects and love it. Guess now's a good time show appreciation to maintainers so thank you.
tasha0663 5y ago

by junon 5y ago

dimgl 5y ago

I love Chalk! I didn't realize it came after colors. Thanks for maintaining this package.

feupan 5y ago

Is a codemod available for anyone who wants to migrate?

junon 5y ago
Not at the moment, but the migration should be pretty straightforward if you don't use the more elaborate color functions from `colors` (e.g. we don't have things like "zebra"). If you use `require('colors/safe')` and only use the basic colors, then Chalk is more or less a drop-in replacement. If you use the property values (e.g. `"my string".green`) then you'll need to change that to `chalk.green("my string")`.
- jwalton 5y ago
  One thing worth noting is that chalk 5 is ESM only, so if you’re using commonjs, you’ll need to use chalk 4, or transpire it with Babel, or something…

peterangular 5y ago

I use the hell out of chalk and I just want to say thank you for creating/maintaining a solid product. Seeing this is scary to us who still unfortunately have dependencies with Node/npm. Thank you so much for what you do.

pkgland 5y ago

Not a question but just want to help developers who needs it: pkg.land (beta) finds similar packages on NPM. Here are the links for colors and faker: https://pkg.land/package/colors https://pkg.land/package/colors (chalk is top suggestion!) https://pkg.land/package/faker https://pkg.land/package/faker

DandyDev 5y ago
This is very cool. Sad that it only works for NPM packages. Would love this for PyPI packages

mazlix 5y ago

Never used colorjs, have used chalk in my OSS projects and love it. Guess now's a good time show appreciation to maintainers so thank you.

tasha0663 5y ago