supports-color
Detect whether a terminal supports color
Install
$ npm install supports-color
Usage
const supportsColor = ; if supportsColorstdout console; if supportsColorstdouthas256 console; if supportsColorstderrhas16m console;
API
Returns an Object
with a stdout
and stderr
property for testing either streams. Each property is an Object
, or false
if color is not supported.
The stdout
/stderr
objects specifies a level of support for color through a .level
property and a corresponding flag:
.level = 1
and.hasBasic = true
: Basic color support (16 colors).level = 2
and.has256 = true
: 256 color support.level = 3
and.has16m = true
: Truecolor support (16 million colors)
Info
It obeys the --color
and --no-color
CLI flags.
For situations where using --color
is not possible, use the environment variable FORCE_COLOR=1
(level 1), FORCE_COLOR=2
(level 2), or FORCE_COLOR=3
(level 3) to forcefully enable color, or FORCE_COLOR=0
to forcefully disable. The use of FORCE_COLOR
overrides all other color support checks.
Explicit 256/Truecolor mode can be enabled using the --color=256
and --color=16m
flags, respectively.
Related
- supports-color-cli - CLI for this module
- chalk - Terminal string styling done right
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