These days I’ve been writing a lot of babashka instead of reaching for bash or python to do minor scripting tasks at work.
I am also a big fan of the work done at charm and the relevant products in this case are gum and lipgloss.
Using gum style I can log any text in basically any color I want. And while there’s not a ton of
functional benefits to this, I think there’s something to be said about adding color into the logs
we write.
I just wanted to take the time to outline the steps I took to do all of the following
- Add a local dependency to a babashka script and import library code from a local directory
- How to write color to shell streams
Colored Logging
I picked the two color palettes from log to emulate first.