kobzarvs / supernanopicocolors

2x times faster than nanocolors and use 2x less space in node_modules

supernanopicocolors

npm install picocolors

A tinier and faster alternative to nanocolors. Andrey, are you even trying?

import { green, italic } from "picocolors";

console.log(green(`How are ${italic(`you`)} doing?`));

• Up to 2x faster and 2x smaller than alternatives
• 3x faster and 10x smaller than chalk
• TypeScript & Flowtype support
• NO_COLOR friendly
• Node.js v6+ & browsers support
• The same API, but faster, much faster
• No String.prototype modifications (anyone still doing it?)
• No dependencies and the smallest node_modules footprint
• Tree-shakeable (in case a Node.js package needs it?)

Prior Art

Credits go to the following projects:

• Nanocolors by @ai
• Colorette by @jorgebucaran
• Kleur by @lukeed
• Colors.js by @Marak
• Chalk by @sindresorhus

Benchmarks

nanocolors benchmark:

./test/size.js
Data from packagephobia.com
chalk         101 kB
cli-color    1249 kB
ansi-colors    25 kB
kleur          21 kB
colorette      16 kB
nanocolors     16 kB
+picocolors     8 kB

$ ./test/complex-benchmark.js
chalk          2,618,824 ops/sec
cli-color        326,445 ops/sec
ansi-colors    1,057,188 ops/sec
kleur          2,543,659 ops/sec
kleur/colors   2,841,679 ops/sec
colorette      3,219,038 ops/sec
nanocolors     3,672,600 ops/sec
+picocolors    6,079,950 ops/sec

colorette benchmark:

$ npm start
+picocolors × 1,203,773 ops/sec
chalk × 474,359 ops/sec
kleur × 482,915 ops/sec
colors × 233,138 ops/sec
colorette × 657,896 ops/sec
nanocolors × 660,817 ops/sec
ansi-colors × 290,986 ops/sec

Replacing nanocolors

Just replace imports

-import { green, italic } from 'nanocolors';
+import { green, italic } from 'picocolors';