README.md

console-table-printer

🖥️🍭Printing Pretty Tables on your console

Synopsis

Printing Simple Table with Coloring rows on your console. Its useful when you want to present some tables on console using js.

Installation

npm install console-table-printer --save

Basic Example

const { printTable } = require('console-table-printer');

//Create a table
const testCases = [
  { Rank: 3, text: 'I would like some Yellow', value: 100 },
  { Rank: 4, text: 'I hope batch update is working', value: 300 },
];

//print
printTable(testCases);

🚨🚨Announcement🚨🚨 Official Documentation is moved Here

You can also create a Table instance and print it:

const { Table } = require('console-table-printer');

//Create a table
const p = new Table();

// add rows with color
p.addRow({ Record: 'a', text: 'red wine please', value: 10.212 });
p.addRow({ Record: 'b', text: 'green gemuse please', value: 20.0 });
p.addRows([
  // adding multiple rows are possible
  { Record: 'c', text: 'gelb bananen bitte', value: 100 },
  { Record: 'd', text: 'update is working', value: 300 },
]);

//print
p.printTable();

You can also put some color to your table like this:

const p = new Table();
p.addRow({ description: 'red wine', value: 10.212 }, { color: 'red' });
p.addRow({ description: 'green gemuse', value: 20.0 }, { color: 'green' });
p.addRow({ description: 'gelb bananen', value: 100 }, { color: 'yellow' });
p.printTable();

You can also put properties based on columns (color/alignment/title)

const p = new Table({
  columns: [
    { name: 'id', alignment: 'left', color: 'blue' }, // with alignment and color
    { name: 'text', alignment: 'right' },
    { name: 'is_priority_today', title: 'Is This Priority?' }, // with Title as separate Text
  ],
  colorMap: {
    custom_green: '\x1b[32m', // define customized color
  },
});

p.addRow({ id: 1, text: 'red wine', value: 10.212 }, { color: 'green' });
p.addRow(
  { id: 2, text: 'green gemuse', value: 20.0 },
  { color: 'custom_green' } // your green
);
p.addRow(
  { id: 3, text: 'gelb bananen', value: 100, is_priority_today: 'Y' },
  { color: 'yellow' }
);
p.addRow({ id: 3, text: 'rosa hemd wie immer', value: 100 }, { color: 'cyan' });

p.printTable();

CLI

There is also a CLI tool for printing Tables on Terminal directly table-printer-cli

Documentation

Official documentation has been moved here: console-table-documentation

Table instance creation

3 ways to Table Instance creation:

1. Simplest way new Table()

2. Only with column names: new Table(['column1', 'column2', 'column3'])

3. Detailed way of creating table instance

new Table({
  title: 'Title of the Table', // A text showsup on top of table (optoinal)
  columns: [
    { name: 'column1', alignment: 'left', color: 'red' }, // with alignment and color
    { name: 'column2', alignment: 'right', maxLen: 30 }, // lines bigger than this will be splitted in multiple lines
    { name: 'column3', title: 'Column3' }, // Title is what will be shown while printing, by default title = name
  ],
  rows: [{ column1: 'row1' }, { column2: 'row2' }, { column3: 'row3' }],
  sort: (row1, row2) => row2.column1 - row1.column1, // sorting order of rows (optional), this is normal js sort function for Array.sort
  filter: (row) => row.column1 < 3, // filtering rows (optional)
  enabledColumns: ['column1'], // array of columns that you want to see, all other will be ignored (optional)
  disabledColumns: ['column2'], // array of columns that you DONT want to see, these will always be hidden
  colorMap: {
    custom_green: '\x1b[32m', // define customized color
  },
  charLength: {
    '👋': 2,
    '😅': 2,
  }, // custom len of chars in console
});

Functions

• addRow(rowObjet, options) adding single row. This can be chained
• addRows(rowObjects, options) adding multiple rows. array of row object. This case options will be applied to all the objects in row
• addColumn(columnObject) adding single column
• addColumns(columnObjects) adding multiple columns
• printTable() Prints the table on your console

possible color values for rows

Check Docs: color-vals

Example usage: To Create a row of color blue

table.addRow(rowObject, { color: 'blue' });

Example usage: To apply blue for all rows

table.addRows(rowsArray, { color: 'blue' });

possible alignment values for columns

Check Docs: alignment-vals

Typescript Support

You can get color / alignment as types. Check Docs: types-docs

License

MIT