Coloring difference between nox and overmind

[jwoertink]

Here's what Nox looks like when I boot my app

Here's what Overmind looks like

There's a few differences here:

• Nox shows the yarn run v1.22.17 line under "web" as where Overmind just has it on its own line. I'm not sure which is better...
• Same goes for the actual browser-sync command.
• The [Browsersync] in "web" on Nox isn't colorized, but in Overmind it is. Notice in the assets it is though
• Same goes for some links

[matthewmcgarvey]

I think it might be connected to the fact that Overmind uses PTY (pseudo-terminals) which causes the command to think it's outputting to the terminal, while Nox does not so the command thinks it's outputting to a file. I would like for it to look no different than Overmind's output, but Crystal doesn't have a library that implements PTY right now.

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/introducing-overmind-and-hivemind

You could verify this by running it with foreman since it doesn't use PTY either and compare the output.

There might be some stuff that isn't attributed to this, though. Like the yarn run ... thing. I'll try to look into it.

[jwoertink]

Ah cool. Yup. Tried with foreman, and it looks the same. I'm cool with how it looks, I just wanted to make sure we weren't losing out on something. I did try doing some puts "***".colorize.yellow and it came out fine, so we're at least catching that.

[matthewmcgarvey]

Yep, pretty sure it only affects utilities that have different output styling based on what it's outputting to. The article's example is Sidekiq. The article also mentions that there could be lag with a lot of output, but I'm sure it will be fine 😟

[matthewmcgarvey]

It's weird coming back to this issue, checking to see if there are any PTY shards out there yet, finding one and thinking "ahh, but it's kinda old" and then realizing that it's newer than this conversation we had almost 3 years ago.

Anyways: https://github.com/crystal-posix/pty.cr might be helpful