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blessed-contrib
Build dashboards (or any other application) using ascii/ansi art and javascript.
Friendly to terminals, ssh and developers. Extends blessed with custom drawille and other widgets.
You should also check WOPR: a markup for creating terminal reports, presentations and infographics.
Contributors:
Yaron Naveh (@YaronNaveh)
Chris (@xcezzz)
Miguel Valadas (@mvaladas)
Liran Tal (@lirantal)
Demo (full size):
(source code)
Running the demo
git clone https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib.git
cd blessed-contrib
npm install
node ./examples/dashboard.js
Works on Linux, OS X and Windows. For Windows follow the pre requisites.
Installation (to build custom projects)
Please use the latest stable version of Node.js LTS and install blessed-contrib and its peer dependency blessed as follows:
npm install blessed blessed-contrib
Usage
You can use any of the default widgets of blessed (texts, lists and etc) or the widgets added in blessed-contrib (described below). A layout is optional but useful for dashboards. The widgets in blessed-contrib follow the same usage pattern:
var blessed = require('blessed')
, contrib = require('blessed-contrib')
, screen = blessed.screen()
, line = contrib.line(
{ style:
{ line: "yellow"
, text: "green"
, baseline: "black"}
, xLabelPadding: 3
, xPadding: 5
, label: 'Title'})
, data = {
x: ['t1', 't2', 't3', 't4'],
y: [5, 1, 7, 5]
}
screen.append(line) //must append before setting data
line.setData([data])
screen.key(['escape', 'q', 'C-c'], function(ch, key) {
return process.exit(0);
});
screen.render()
See below for a complete list of widgets.
Widgets
Line Chart
Bar Chart
Stacked Bar Chart
Map
Gauge
Stacked Gauge
Donut
LCD Display
Rolling Log
Picture
Sparkline
Table
Tree
Markdown
Line Chart
var line = contrib.line(
{ style:
{ line: "yellow"
, text: "green"
, baseline: "black"}
, xLabelPadding: 3
, xPadding: 5
, showLegend: true
, wholeNumbersOnly: false //true=do not show fraction in y axis
, label: 'Title'})
var series1 = {
title: 'apples',
x: ['t1', 't2', 't3', 't4'],
y: [5, 1, 7, 5]
}
var series2 = {
title: 'oranges',
x: ['t1', 't2', 't3', 't4'],
y: [2, 1, 4, 8]
}
screen.append(line) //must append before setting data
line.setData([series1, series2])
Examples: simple line chart, multiple lines, 256 colors
Bar Chart
var bar = contrib.bar(
{ label: 'Server Utilization (%)'
, barWidth: 4
, barSpacing: 6
, xOffset: 0
, maxHeight: 9})
screen.append(bar) //must append before setting data
bar.setData(
{ titles: ['bar1', 'bar2']
, data: [5, 10]})
Stacked Bar Chart
bar = contrib.stackedBar(
{ label: 'Server Utilization (%)'
, barWidth: 4
, barSpacing: 6
, xOffset: 0
//, maxValue: 15
, height: "40%"
, width: "50%"
, barBgColor: [ 'red', 'blue', 'green' ]})
screen.append(bar)
bar.setData(
{ barCategory: ['Q1', 'Q2', 'Q3', 'Q4']
, stackedCategory: ['US', 'EU', 'AP']
, data:
[ [ 7, 7, 5]
, [8, 2, 0]
, [0, 0, 0]
, [2, 3, 2] ]
})
Map
var map = contrib.map({label: 'World Map'})
map.addMarker({"lon" : "-79.0000", "lat" : "37.5000", color: "red", char: "X" })
Gauge
var gauge = contrib.gauge({label: 'Progress', stroke: 'green', fill: 'white'})
gauge.setPercent(25)
Stacked Gauge
Either specify each stacked portion with a percent and stroke...
var gauge = contrib.gauge({label: 'Stacked '})
gauge.setStack([{percent: 30, stroke: 'green'}, {percent: 30, stroke: 'magenta'}, {percent: 40, stroke: 'cyan'}])
Or, you can just supply an array of numbers and random colors will be chosen.
var gauge = contrib.gauge({label: 'Stacked Progress'})
gauge.setStack([30,30,40])
Donut
var donut = contrib.donut({
label: 'Test',
radius: 8,
arcWidth: 3,
remainColor: 'black',
yPadding: 2,
data: [
{percent: 80, label: 'web1', color: 'green'}
]
});
Data passed in uses percent and label to draw the donut graph. Color is optional and defaults to green.
donut.setData([
{percent: 87, label: 'rcp','color': 'green'},
{percent: 43, label: 'rcp','color': 'cyan'},
]);
Updating the donut is as easy as passing in an array to setData using the same array format as in the constructor. Pass in as many objects to the array of data as you want, they will automatically resize and try to fit. However, please note that you will still be restricted to actual screen space.
You can also hardcode a specific numeric into the donut's core display instead of the percentage by passing an percentAltNumber property to the data, such as:
var donut = contrib.donut({
label: 'Test',
radius: 8,
arcWidth: 3,
remainColor: 'black',
yPadding: 2,
data: [
{percentAltNumber: 50, percent: 80, label: 'web1', color: 'green'}
]
});
See an example of this in one of the donuts settings on ./examples/donut.js.
LCD Display
var lcd = contrib.lcd(
{ segmentWidth: 0.06 // how wide are the segments in % so 50% = 0.5
, segmentInterval: 0.11 // spacing between the segments in % so 50% = 0.550% = 0.5
, strokeWidth: 0.11 // spacing between the segments in % so 50% = 0.5
, elements: 4 // how many elements in the display. or how many characters can be displayed.
, display: 321 // what should be displayed before first call to setDisplay
, elementSpacing: 4 // spacing between each element
, elementPadding: 2 // how far away from the edges to put the elements
, color: 'white' // color for the segments
, label: 'Storage Remaining'})
lcd.setDisplay(23 + 'G'); // will display "23G"
lcd.setOptions({}) // adjust options at runtime
Please see the exampl
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