🚀 Feature: add color

[whyboris]

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Overview

Compared to console.table(myTable); the output of this library does not colorize the column entries

Additional Info

It would be lovely to match the colors of console.table (feel free to change colors however you'd like).

Feels like it may be somewhat straight-forward with:

if (typeof entry === string) {
 return green(entry);
}

function green(text) {
  console.log('\x1b[32m' + text + '\x1b[0m')
}

ps - It would be maybe nice not to include the ' around strings 🤷‍♂️

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Huh, does the Node.js console.table colorize entries for you? It's plain colored on my system, including shells that have color support. Could you post a screenshot please?

A hunch: are you maybe thinking of the browser console table? That would be out of scope for this lib, which is just Node.js-focused.

[whyboris]

I am using Alacritty with Git Bash (comes when you install Git) as the shell on Windows 10 🤷‍♂️

I am doing console.table on an array of strings and floats that come from a JSON

[{"amount":5.0,"date":"2024-10-22","email":"the###@###.com"}]

blue rectangles over text to obscure email address 🕵️‍♀️

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[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Ah, you're right! This also happens on my stock macOS VS Code:

import { table } from "console-table-without-index";

const data = [{ "amount": 5.0, "date": "2024-10-22", "email": "the###@###.com" }]

console.table(data);

console.log(table(data));

This'll have to use a package like supports-color to determine whether the terminal supports color. Accepting PRs!

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

@all-contributors please add @whyboris for ideas.

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@JoshuaKGoldberg

I've put up a pull request to add @whyboris! 🎉