IO Color

Wrapping your IO.inspect and IO.puts in vibrant colors since 2018.

No external dependencies.

Installation

Add {:io_color, "~> 0.2.0"} to your dependencies.

def deps do
  [
    {:io_color, "~> 0.2.0"}
  ]
end

Usage

list = [
    %{"name" => "Vincent", age: 18},
    %{"name" => "Teemo", age: 21},
    %{"name" => "Clara", age: 23}
]

IOC.inspect(list, "Optional Label")

What it looks like:

What your current IO.inspect looks like:

Wait, IOC.insp?

All of these will work, choose whichever you like!

IOC.insp(list, "something")
IOC.inspect(list, "something")
IOColor.insp(list, "something")
IOColored.insp(list, "something")
IOColor.inspect(list, "something")
IOColored.inspect(list, "something")

# `IO.puts`: accepts one arg only
IOC.puts("Some string")
IOColor.puts("Some string")
IOColored.puts("Some string")

Will my |>s still work?

Of course!

conn
|> Map.get(:body_params)
|> IOC.insp("Incoming Body Params")
|> process_body_params
|> IOC.insp("Process result")
|> case do
      # ...
   end

Custom colors / other commands?

I'm currently putting this here for my personal convenience. Yeah I'm lazy to copy a single module file across all my projects, I know. But if it'll be useful to you to see more features, feel free to put in an issue and pull request, and I'll help what I can. Just saying, it seems that supporting presets (soft or hard) may be better than just custom colors, because the colour combinations are hard to get right.

Contributing

# install erlang, elixir

git clone https://github.com/Seiyial/elix_io_color.git
cd io_color
iex -S mix run