# archy
Render nested hierarchies `npm ls` style with unicode pipes.
[](http://ci.testling.com/substack/node-archy)
[](http://travis-ci.org/substack/node-archy)
# example
``` js
var archy = require('archy');
var s = archy({
label : 'beep',
nodes : [
'ity',
{
label : 'boop',
nodes : [
{
label : 'o_O',
nodes : [
{
label : 'oh',
nodes : [ 'hello', 'puny' ]
},
'human'
]
},
'party\ntime!'
]
}
]
});
console.log(s);
```
output
```
beep
├── ity
└─┬ boop
├─┬ o_O
│ ├─┬ oh
│ │ ├── hello
│ │ └── puny
│ └── human
└── party
time!
```
# methods
var archy = require('archy')
## archy(obj, prefix='', opts={})
Return a string representation of `obj` with unicode pipe characters like how
`npm ls` looks.
`obj` should be a tree of nested objects with `'label'` and `'nodes'` fields.
`'label'` is a string of text to display at a node level and `'nodes'` is an
array of the descendents of the current node.
If a node is a string, that string will be used as the `'label'` and an empty
array of `'nodes'` will be used.
`prefix` gets prepended to all the lines and is used by the algorithm to
recursively update.
If `'label'` has newlines they will be indented at the present indentation level
with the current prefix.
To disable unicode results in favor of all-ansi output set `opts.unicode` to
`false`.
# install
With [npm](http://npmjs.org) do:
```
npm install archy
```
# license
MIT
