text-effects

text-effects is a simple Node.js library for animating text output in the console with customizable styling and speed.

installation

• npm install text-effects or
• clone this repository.

Available Functions:

1. tw_forward(text,delay,styles)

• text- "text to be animated
• delay- delay between each latter is printing on screen in milisecond. or we can say it is speed of animation.
• styles- An object containing properties for customizing the text style.

    const animate = require('text-effects');
    

    let obj={
    bg: animate.ansi.bgWhite,
    fg: animate.ansi.fgRed,
    style: animate.ansi.bright
    };


    animate.tw_forward('hi this is a text animation library.', 100,obj);

• Output:

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2. tw_back(text,delay,styles)

• text- "text to be animated"
• delay- delay between each latter is printing on screen in milisecond. or we can say it is speed of animation.
• styles- An object containing properties for customizing the text style.

    const animate = require('text-effects');
    

    let obj={
    bg: animate.ansi.bgBlack,
    fg: animate.ansi.fgRed,
    style: animate.ansi.bright
    };


    animate.tw_back('hi this is a text animation library.', 100,obj);

• Output:

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3. karaoke(text,delay,styles)

4. blink(text,delay,styles)

5. scroll(text,speed,styles)

    const animate = require('text-effects');

    let obj={
    style:animate.ansi.bright,
    bg:animate.ansi.bgBlack,
    fg:animate.ansi.fgGreen
}
    const stopAnimation = animate.scroll('hello world!', 100, obj);

    //stopAnimation is an function returned by scroll function and can be used to stop the animation. If you call stopAnimation inside a settimeout function than you can stop animation after some time otherwise this animation will animate untill you stop it.

    

6. fadein

7. fadeout

8. glitch1(text,speed,obj)

Styling with ansi Module

• The ansi module provides convenient styling options that you can use with the text-animate functions. Here are the available styles:
• Reset: ansi.reset
• Bright: ansi.bright
• Dim: ansi.dim
• Underscore: ansi.underscore
• Blink: ansi.blink
• Reverse: ansi.reverse
• Hidden: ansi.hidden

Foreground (Text) Colors:

• Black: ansi.fgBlack
• Red: ansi.fgRed
• Green: ansi.fgGreen
• Yellow: ansi.fgYellow
• Blue: ansi.fgBlue
• Magenta: ansi.fgMagenta
• Cyan: ansi.fgCyan
• White: ansi.fgWhite

Background Colors:

• Black: ansi.bgBlack

• Red: ansi.bgRed

• Green: ansi.bgGreen

• Yellow: ansi.bgYellow

• Blue: ansi.bgBlue

• Magenta: ansi.bgMagenta

• Cyan:ansi.bgCyan

• White: ansi.bgWhite

• Note: you can use your own ansi colors for styling

Custom colors:

• make RGB custom colors according to you for the animation.

     const animate = require('text-effects');


    //get custom background
    let background=animate.customBg(100,100,100); //give RGB value. 

    //get custom forground
    let fground=animate.customFg(12,34,54);

    let obj={
    bg:background,
    fg:fground
}

    let stop=animate.scroll('hello world!', 100, obj);

styling object:

• it is an object can be given as argument to animation functions.

    let obj={
        style:ansi.bright, //you can give any ansi style value here and if u dont give it take take by default no style.
        
    }

    //if you don't give this obj as argument to animation functions than it will take by default object that is defined in code.

Contribution:

• Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit bug reports, feature requests, or pull requests.