table_rex
An Elixir library for generating customizable text-based tables with support for styling, sorting, and ANSI colors.
What is table_rex?
TableRex is an Elixir library that generates text-based tables for display in terminals or plain-text outputs. It provides a flexible API to create ASCII-style tables with extensive customization, solving the need for formatted data presentation in CLI applications, logging, and reporting. The library emphasizes simplicity with sane defaults while allowing deep customization for complex layouts.
Elixir developers building command-line interfaces (CLIs), data reporting tools, or logging systems that require formatted text output. It is also suitable for those needing to display tabular data in terminals with support for Unicode, CJK characters, and ANSI colors.
Developers choose TableRex for its balance of ease-of-use with one-liner functions and powerful customization options like column alignment, sorting, multi-line cells, and custom renderers. Its unique selling point is the extensive styling control, including GitHub Flavored Markdown support and conditional coloring, without sacrificing performance or stability in Elixir ecosystems.
Overview
An Elixir app which generates text-based tables for display
Use Cases
Best For
- Building CLI applications that require formatted table outputs for data display.
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