# sindresorhus/boxen

Create boxes in the terminal

Repository: https://github.com/sindresorhus/boxen
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/boxen
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-09-19T03:55:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 42/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 42, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3908, "days_push": 348, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1675, forks 59 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:20.515574+00:00)

## What it is
A JavaScript library for drawing bordered boxes around text in the terminal, with configurable border styles, colors, padding, margins, titles, and dimensions. It is a small npm package commonly used to make CLI output more visually prominent.

## Use cases
- draw a box around text in terminal output
- highlight important messages in a CLI tool
- add a titled bordered panel to console output
- style CLI banners with double or rounded borders
- pad and align text inside terminal boxes

## When to choose
- you are building a Node.js CLI and want eye-catching boxed output
- you need simple, dependency-light terminal text decoration
- you want configurable border styles, titles, and colors for console messages

## When to avoid
- you need full TUI layouts or interactive components rather than static boxes
- your project is not JavaScript/Node.js based
- you need complex dashboard-style terminal UIs

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: cli, developer-tools, terminal-ui
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: terminal-output, ascii-boxes, unicode-borders, text-styling, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- sindresorhus/boxen (main) score 42

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:20.515574+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:42:29.753603+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sindresorhus/boxen (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:20.515574+00:00, sha 9750cc8f34e5)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/boxen (fetched 2026-08-29T11:15:30.761445+00:00, sha bbb26d363cb2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.