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chalk v3.0.0-beta.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-09-27 // over 4 years ago

  • 🚀 This release has been in development for more than a year and massively improves performance and the time it takes to import Chalk. Thanks to @stroncium for his hard work on this.

    🚀 While this is a beta release, the code is well-tested and fairly stable.
    ✅ We encourage you to test it out and report any issues.

    $ npm install [email protected]

    💥 Breaking

    • Require Node.js 8 3ef170b

    • ✂ Remove the .enabled property in favor of .level (#356) 1f77953

      • Why: It was confusing to users to have two properties for this.
      • Migrate:

      -if (chalk.enabled) {}+if (chalk.level > 0) {}

    • ✂ Remove chalk.constructor() in favor of chalk.Instance() (#322) de2f4cd

      • Migrate:

      -new chalk.constructor({level: 1});+new chalk.Instance({level: 1})

    Minor breaking

    • 👉 Use CommonJS-compatible export in TypeScript definition (#344) 98628d9

      -import chalk from 'chalk';+import chalk = require('chalk');

    • ⬇️ Drop built-in Flow type definition d3be9c6

      • Why: None of us use Flow and we were not good at maintaining the type definition. You can get the types at flow-typed (needs to be updated to Chalk v3).

    • 📇 Rename the ChalkOptions TypeScript type to Options cf66156

    • ✂ Remove dim style workaround for Windows (#331) cd5de7a

      • Why: The issue was fixed in newer Windows 10 builds.

    • ✂ Remove the blue color workaround for Windows (#330) 2ca015c

      • Why: The issue was fixed in newer Windows 10 builds.

    ✨ Enhancements

    • 🐎 Massively improve performance (#337) c08417e
    • 👌 Improve require speed (#358) 61aca7c
    • ➕ Add chalk.stderr for printing to stderr (#359) 2a53389
    • ➕ Add blackBright color. It's the same as the gray color, but added for consistency. c25c32a
    • 🛠 Fix support for bracketed Unicode escapes in template literals (#350) 9830948
    • Export TypeScript types for colors and modifiers (#357) 6b4d206

    Color detection

    🛠 Fixes

    • 🛠 Fix support for nested styles (#335) 87156ce
    • 🛠 Fix const enum for TypeScript (#364) 4e65299
    • 🛠 Fix TypeScript type for supportsColor which is top‑level only (#342) b3e9b91
    • 🛠 Fix TypeScript type for chalk.supportsColor (#347) d82b2a6
    • 🛠 Fix TypeScript type for tagged template literal argument to accept unknown instead of just string (#316) 7f6e563

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