ShellArtist

ShellArtist is a package that provides a simplified logging API. It takes some of the best npm packages, ties them together and wraps them around to your favorite Web API i.e. console.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Use Cases
• Packages Used
• Usage
  • Installation
  • Default Log
  • With config object
  • Spinner
  • Log Levels
  • Gradient
  • Animations
  • ASCII Arts

Features

• Apply Colors and Background colors to your texts
• Create colorful and customizable Boxes in your terminal
• Use amazing prebuilt Animations
• Apply Gradient colors to your texts
• Use prebuilt Status messages for your console
• Add attractive spinners for async operations
• Get your favorite emoticons to make it fun
• Convert your texts into ascii arts

Use Cases

• You can create your custom logging service
• You can create spectacular CLIs

Packages Used

• ora
• chalk
• chalk-animation
• gradient-string
• boxen
• node-emoji
• figlet
• center-align

Usage

Installation

# using npm
npm i shell-artist

# using yarn
yarn add shell-artist

# using pnpm
pnpm add shell-artist

Default Log

import sa from 'shell-artist';

sa.log('Hello World');

Output

Hello World

With config object

import sa from 'shell-artist';

sa.log(' MY CLI APP ', {
  bgColor: 'bgGreenBright', // https://github.com/chalk/chalk/tree/main#background-colors,
  color: 'white', // https://github.com/chalk/chalk/tree/main#colors
  modifier: 'bold', // https://github.com/chalk/chalk/tree/main#modifiers
  emoji: 'rocket', // https://github.com/muan/emojilib/blob/main/dist/emoji-en-US.json,
  box: {
    title: 'package update',
    borderColor: 'green',
    style: 'double', // https://github.com/sindresorhus/boxen/tree/main#borderstyle (default - 'single')
    padding: 2, // default - 1
    margin: 2, // default - 1
    dimBorder: true, // default - false
    textAlignment: 'center', // default - 'center'
    titleAlignment: 'left', // default - 'center'
  },
});

Output

Log Levels

import sa from 'shell-artist';

sa.warn('CAUTION');
sa.error('FAILURE');
sa.info('INFO');
// with the config object
sa.success(' SUCCESS ', {
  box: {
    title: 'success',
    borderColor: 'green',
  },
  modifier: 'bold',
  emoji: 'rocket',
});

Output

Spinner

import sa from 'shell-artist';
import { setTimeout as sleep } from 'node:timers/promises';

const spinner = sa.start('Installing dependencies...');
await sleep(3000);

sa.stop(spinner, 'All set!');
// with the config object
sa.stop(spinner, 'All set!', {
  modifier: 'strikethrough',
});
// with prebuilt log levels
sa.stop(
  spinner,
  'Build ran successfully',
  {
    modifier: 'bold',
  },
  'success',
); // status = 'success' | 'error' | 'info' | 'warn'
sa.stop(spinner, 'Something went wrong', undefined, 'error');

Output

  All set!
  All set!
✔ Build ran successfully
✖ Something went wrong

(will be updated with gifs)

Gradient

import sa from 'shell-artist';

// with array of colors
sa.applyGradient('This tool will help you write beautiful logs', [
  'red',
  'blue',
  'green',
  'yellow',
]);
// with prebuilt gradient
sa.applyGradient('This tool will help you write beautiful logs', 'rainbow'); // https://github.com/bokub/gradient-string#available-built-in-gradients

Output

Animations

import sa from 'shell-artist';

sa.animate('ANIMATED HEADING', 'neon'); // https://github.com/bokub/chalk-animation#available-animations

Output

ASCII Arts

import sa from 'shell-artist';

sa.createAscii('Sample ASCII TeXt', {
  font: 'Ghost', // https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/master/types/figlet/index.d.ts (default - 'Standard')
  horizontalLayout: 'full', // "default" | "full" | "fitted" | "controlled smushing" | "universal smushing" | undefined;
  verticalLayout: 'fitted', // "default" | "full" | "fitted" | "controlled smushing" | "universal smushing" | undefined;
  width: 80,
  whitespaceBreak: true,
});

Output