Tool of the Trade for CLI Apps - `Boxen` 🔲

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boxen

If you are building a CLI and need to present some good output wrapped in box! Yes, square box, ‘boxen’ is the tool for you. Just like you had seen boxes around output of update-notifier. It makes the CLI app more appealing.

It can present your application output in boxes with various styles like ‘double dashed’, ‘rounded corners’ along with some ‘margin’ and ‘padding’ options.

Boxen has a very easy to follow, simple to use API. Here is a code example:

const boxen = require('boxen');

console.log(boxen('unicorn', { padding: 1 }));
/*
┌─────────────┐
│             │
│   unicorn   │
│             │
└─────────────┘
*/

console.log(boxen('unicorn', { padding: 1, margin: 1, borderStyle: 'double' }));
/*

   ╔═════════════╗
   ║             ║
   ║   unicorn   ║
   ║             ║
   ╚═════════════╝

*/

You can check out official repo for all usage details.

Github Repo: boxen