regular / css-styles-to-ansi-escape-sequences

console-with-style

%c (CSS styling) support for Node's console.log

Why?

Firefox, Chrome's and Safari's console support styling console.log output with CSS declarations. Node should to!

How?

It translates CSS styles to ansi escape sequences for the terminal!

Example

const supportsColor = require('supports-color')
const level = (supportsColor.stdout && supportsColor.stdout.level) || 0
const format = require('console-with-style')(level)
console.log(format('%ci=%d%c, %cs="%s"%c, %cCSS', 'color:yellow;', 5, 'color:inherit;', 'background: blue;', 'hello','background: inherit', 'color: orange;'))

So far, only colors are supported.

Ok ... why again?

If you forward the output of a browser's console to a process in the terminal, it's nice to see the same colors, for example when using debug.

License

MIT