Automattic/cli-table
Cli Table
Cli-table is a command-line utility and Node.js library for rendering structured, Unicode-bordered tables with custom widths and alignment in terminal applications. It functions as a table formatting tool designed to style headers, pad cells, and truncate text output for command-line tools.
The library supports custom box-drawing characters and corner pieces assembled dynamically around cell content to form structured grid layouts. It handles column-width-based cell wrapping by calculating character lengths to split and wrap multi-line text within fixed terminal bounds, alongside ANSI-style header injection that wraps header strings in terminal escape sequences for foreground colors and background highlights.
Tables inherit from standard JavaScript arrays to allow programmatic manipulation of rows while preserving tabular metadata, assembling rows, columns, and padding into a plain-text buffer before flushing the complete output.
Features
- Terminal Tables - Generates structured tables with custom characters, borders, column widths, text alignment, and cell padding for clean terminal output.
- Terminal Data Interfaces - Builds command-line interfaces that present structured data in clean, readable tabular formats for users.
- Box-Drawing Utilities - Assembles custom box-drawing characters and corner pieces dynamically around cell content to form structured grid layouts.
- Terminal Output Formatting - Styles terminal output with custom borders, colors, and text alignment to make command-line tools easier to read.
- Table-Based Formatting - Acts as a command-line utility for styling table headers, padding cells, and truncating text output in terminal applications.
- Terminal Text Wrapping - Calculates precise character lengths to split and wrap multi-line text cleanly inside fixed terminal bounds.
- TypeScript CLI Utilities - Provides a Node.js utility built with advanced layout control for textual command-line output.
- Array Manipulations - Inherits from standard JavaScript arrays to allow familiar programmatic row manipulation while preserving metadata.
- Table Header Customizers - Applies custom colors and background styling specifically to table header cells using terminal styling utilities.
- Visual Text Truncation - Limits cell content length based on predefined column widths and truncates overflowing text automatically.
