feat: Added a helper function to print multiple tables at once.

[ArjixWasTaken]

👀What is this pr about?

This PR aims to add a function that will print multiple tables at once.
If the size of the terminal cannot fit them side by side, it will print as many as it can at once
And print the others below, side by side.

🚀 Changes

Added

• printTables

Fixed

#375

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[ArjixWasTaken]

The function can be imported like this:

import { printTables } from "console-table-printer/utils/table-helpers"

And you can pass any number of tables into it in order to print them.

[ArjixWasTaken]

PS:

I didn't test this package wide. (In other words I didn't reinstall the package in order to test.)
I only tested the function directly.
So please check for me because I'm super lazy.

[ArjixWasTaken]

For some reason this took way more effort than what it's worth.

[ArjixWasTaken]

Wow, now that's a long time of inactivity there.

[ayonious]

as mentioned in #375 this does not seem like a feature that many would use.

But also looking at code its little difficult to understand. Im okay to put the simpler version without considering the width. That way at least the most common cases will be handled.

[ArjixWasTaken]

If the code is difficult to understand then I can explain it (or even refactor when I'm back from my trip)

It basically tries to merge as many tables as possible, if the character limit is reached it then prints them below.

Think of it like a buffer, you save data up to the buffer size and then flush the buffer.

That's what I do, I make a "buffer" that gets flushed when the end is reached or the maximum character limit gets hit.

[ayonious]

@ArjixWasTaken thanks for putting time into this.

But to make it maintainable, more things needs to be changed:

• There could be more variable naming, new functions creating, unit tests creating done on this one.
• Readme updates on how to use this
• Also maybe its better to expose the function to be directly accessible instead of this utils file.

[ArjixWasTaken]

oof, pull bot made my PR empty...
worst bot in existence

[ArjixWasTaken]

thankfully a version of the code is available here

[ayonious]

🎉 This PR is included in version 2.11.1 🎉

The release is available on:

• npm package (@latest dist-tag)
• GitHub release

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