I always use the colors module to get style and color in the Node.js console while developing full-stack applications.

Installation

npm install colors

Usage

The following code snippet is an example of how we spin up a server using Express.

const express = require("express");
const mongoose = require("mongoose");
const dotenv = require("dotenv");
const colors = require("colors");

dotenv.config();

const connectDB = async () => {
  try {
    const conn = await mongoose.connect(process.env.MONGO_URI, {
      useNewUrlParser: true,
      useUnifiedTopology: true,
    });

    console.log(`MongoDB connected: ${conn.connection.host}}`);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(`Error: ${error.message}`);
    process.exit(1);
  }
};

connectDB();

const app = express();

app.use(express.json());

const PORT = 5000;

app.listen(PORT, () => {
  console.log(`Server listening on port ${PORT}`.bgBrightBlue.black);
});

When I execute the file using the command node index.js, we will see that the message - Server listening on port 5000 - is logged to the console with a bright blue background and black text.

You can customise the color and style according to your own preferences. To find out more about the options available, check out the link here.