Use ANSI Escape sequences to produce a terminal-output if running in terminal

src/checker/mod.rs

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ mod http;
 mod tcp;
 
 use async_trait::async_trait;
+use console::{style, Term};
 use std::fmt::{Display, Formatter, Result};
 
 use reqwest::Response;
@@ -28,6 +29,18 @@ pub struct CheckResult {
 
 impl Display for CheckResult {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result {
+        if Term::stdout().is_term() {
+            return write!(
+                f,
+                "{}",
+                match &self.state {
+                    CheckState::Up => style(&self.name).green(),
+                    CheckState::Warn => style(&self.name).yellow(),
+                    CheckState::Down => style(&self.name).red(),
+                }
+            );
+        }
+
         let color_config = Config::read().colors;
         let color = match &self.state {
             CheckState::Up => color_config.up,

src/lib.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 mod checker;
 mod config;
 
+use console::{style, Term};
+use std::io::Write;
 use std::process;
 
 pub use config::{CheckConfig, Config};
@@ -25,8 +27,21 @@ pub struct ClickEvent {
 }
 
 pub async fn print_states(config: &Config) {
-    print!("[");
     let mut entries = vec![];
+    if Term::stdout().is_term() {
+        for check_config in &config.checks {
+            entries.push(format!("{}", check_host(check_config).await));
+        }
+        entries.push(
+            chrono::Local::now()
+                .format(config.time_format.as_str())
+                .to_string(),
+        );
+        println!("{}", entries.join(&style(" | ").black().to_string()));
+        return;
+    }
+
+    print!("[");
     for check_config in &config.checks {
         entries.push(format!("{}", check_host(check_config).await));
     }
@@ -53,7 +68,6 @@ pub async fn run_click_cmd(cmd: String) {
         .stdin(process::Stdio::piped())
         .spawn()
     {
-        use std::io::Write;
         let _ = child.stdin.as_mut().unwrap().write_all(cmd.as_bytes());
     };
 }

src/main.rs

@@ -1,18 +1,23 @@
 use checkbar::{get_click_cmd, print_states, read_click_event, run_click_cmd, Config, MouseButton};
+use console::Term;
 use serde_json::json;
 use tokio::task;
 use tokio::time::sleep;
 
 #[tokio::main(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
 async fn main() {
-    println!(
-        "{}",
-        json!({
-            "version": 1,
-            "click_events": true
-        })
-    );
-    println!("[");
+    if Term::stdout().is_term() {
+        let _ = Term::stdout().hide_cursor();
+    } else {
+        println!(
+            "{}",
+            json!({
+                "version": 1,
+                "click_events": true
+            })
+        );
+        println!("[");
+    }
 
     let inputs = task::spawn(async {
         loop {