Last week I published an article about cli-box - a library that creates ASCII rectangles. A pull request was made (thanks @wesolyromek), adding the feature to fill such rectangles with text. A great improvement!
Putting together the overlap module and cli-box, I created le-table - a library for creating ASCII tables in Node.JS.
Let's take a look at the example:
// Dependencies
Creating ASCII rectangles just became easier. I created cli-box - a NodeJS module that can be used to generate ASCII boxes.
You can install it via NPM by running npm install cli-box or via git. For documentation, check out the GitHub repository and the NPM project page.
The library exports a function that can be used as constructor. You just need to pass it a string (e.g.: "20x10") or an object. The function returns an object containing a settings field (which can be modified after the Box call) and a toString() method that will convert the box into a string.
It's time to bring the flat colors into your terminal! I've released a theme for Gnome Terminal that is published on GitHub.
To install it, simply do:
This is the first post that was published thru the UI. Bloggify has a very simple editor. The posts are written in Markdown format. It's pretty simple to learn… not so complicated.
Below you can see a screenshot with the editor.
Isn't it cool?
I am happy to announce the name of this blogging platform: Bloggify. It's just simple to pronounce and it's related to the term blogging.
Urban Dictionary gives an interesting definition of this term:
to "bump" or "upgrade" a messageboard user's post or comment to a front page blog entry based on quality or content. initially used by the messageboard at talk.johnsebben.com
related words include: bloggified, bloggification
Code highlighting is cool! Let's make some tests.
The following pieces of code are taken from this very NodeJS-based blogging platform.
/* blockquotes */
blockquote {
Welcome to my first post on this blog. Bored of complicated designs and settings, I decided to start my own NodeJS-based blogging platform.
The theme files are written in HTML, CSS & JSON. The content - including pages and blog posts - is written in Markdown.
Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax designed so that it can optionally be converted to HTML using a tool by the same name. Markdown is popularly used as format for readme files, or for writing messages in online discussion forums, or in text editors for