'safe' colors not showing up when using foreman

[fiznool]

When running the node app with foreman, strings colored with colors/safe do not display. This is an issue since Heroku uses foreman to run node apps, and so logs will not show up in color.

Using the following Procfile:

web: node index.js

The following code produces colorized output:

require('colors');
console.log('this should be red'.red);

but the following does not:

var colors = require('colors/safe');
console.log(colors.red('this should be red'));

[fiznool]

For reference, this is also an issue when using grunt-express-server.

// Gruntfile.js
module.exports = function(grunt) {
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-express-server');
  grunt.initConfig({
    express: {
      dev: {
        options: {
          script: 'index.js'
        }
      }
    }
  });
};

[Chocobozzz]

Same here with grunt-express-server. It's quite annoying since we can't have a colorized output with Winston using Grunt for example.

[iDVB]

+1 (grunt-express-server, wilson)

[fiznool]

So it looks like the problem is for non-TTY environments, colors.enabled is always set to false.

But we can easily force the colors to be enabled simply by setting:

var colors = require('colors');
colors.enabled = true;

[DABH]

Yep, you can force colors to true (check out lib/system/supports-colors.js for additional command line args etc. you can pass to force colors to be enabled). Please feel free to re-open if this issue persists with colors@next. Thanks!