Introducing colors into the command line makes console reading much easier which is why finding Chalk was a life-changing event for me.  I started digging deeper  into making the console more graphical and I found another module that could bring the console to life:  console-png!

The JavaScript

Assuming you’ve installed console-png or grabbed it from GitHub, it doesn’t take much to output an image to the console:

// Attach module to the console
require('console-png').attachTo(console);

// Read the image, let console-png output it to console
console.png(require('fs').readFileSync(__dirname + '/logo.png'));

As for the use case of such a module, there probably aren’t a ton.  It would be useful to show a command line splash screen when an app starts up, and it may be useful as a feedback mechanism as the user follows app flow.

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