ink-render-string

ink-render-string provides a render function which will return a string, which is the rendered content of the ink component you pass to the render function.

Install

yarn add ink-render-string

Usage

import { render } from 'ink-render-string';
import { Text } from 'ink';

const Component = () => <Text>Hello World</Text>;

const { output, cleanup } = render(<Component />);
output.includes('Hello World'); //=> true

cleanup(); // cleans up outstanding render resources

The render function also returns a number of other instance properties:

• output: the rendered output
• cleanup: a function which cleans up outstanding render resources
• unmount: a function which unmounts the component
• stdout: the original stdout
• stderr: the original stderr
• exitCode: the original exit code
• frames: an array of rendered frames