chalk

Tech stack & purpose

Chalk is a JavaScript library for styling terminal strings with colors and text modifiers using ANSI escape codes. It provides an expressive, chainable API that supports basic 16-color output, 256-color mode, and Truecolor (16 million colors), with automatic detection of terminal color capabilities and no external dependencies. The project is maintained by Sindre Sorhus and Josh Junon, and is widely used across the npm ecosystem, with over 115,000 packages depending on it as of July 2024.

Community & reference links

• `ansi256`
• `rgb`
• `hex`

Languages

Contributors (top 30 of 71)

• Sindre Sorhus208 commits
• Joshua Appelman30 commits
• Josh Junon29 commits
• Richie Bendall15 commits
• LitoMore7 commits
• Qix6 commits
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• Mark Pedrotti3 commits
• Steve Mao3 commits
• Yanis Benson3 commits
• Sean McArthur2 commits
• Popey Gilbert2 commits
• calebboyd2 commits
• Toon Baeyens2 commits
• Charlike Mike Reagent2 commits
• Kevin Mårtensson2 commits
• Mohamed Hamed2 commits
• Boris K2 commits
• Chris Harwood2 commits
• LightnerDev1 commits
• Saad Quadri1 commits
• Noam Okman1 commits
• Samarth Verma1 commits
• Joshua Boy Nicolai Appelman1 commits
• Edvin Erikson1 commits
• Kevin Martensson1 commits
• Ahad Birang1 commits
• Dimitri Benin1 commits
• Luke Page1 commits
• Andrew Kennedy1 commits