[Feature]: Replace `chalk` dependency with a lighter alternative

[trivikr]

🚀 Feature Proposal

Replace chalk dependency with a lighter alternative

Motivation

Recently, the Ecosystem Performance was formed to cleanup, speedup, levelup the JavaScript Ecosystem.
Socket Security team wrote a blog post about it https://socket.dev/blog/javascript-community-launches-e18e-initiative-to-improve-ecosystem-performance

On the e18e cleanup channel on Discord, multiple solutions are being discussed. One of them is to replace chalk with picocolors.

I see that jest uses chalk

jest/package.json

Line 31 in cce44d7

"chalk": "^4.0.0",

And it's upgrade to chalk@5.x is blocked since it's ESM only #14253 (comment)

Example

No response

Pitch

Replace chalk with a lighter alternative like picocolors.

[SimenB]

Happy to take a PR switching to picocolors (which babel etc. uses) or something else if there are better alternatives 👍

[ishon19]

Hey @SimenB, I would like to work on this issue!

Also, I went through a bunch of relevant npm packages (kleur, colorette, etc.) and I also feel like picocolors would be the best option here, as it beats others in terms of the package size.

[SimenB]

Sweet thanks! Looking forward to it 👍

[sindresorhus]

I recommend reading this: https://github.com/chalk/chalk#why-not-switch-to-a-smaller-coloring-package

[ishon19]

I recommend reading this: https://github.com/chalk/chalk#why-not-switch-to-a-smaller-coloring-package

Thanks for sharing the link @sindresorhus and I agree to a great extent, smaller packages somewhere fall short on providing the range of colors, something which I experienced in the linked draft PR, not to mention the package specific quirks that need to be accommodated on top of that.