The 'beeper' npm package allows you to make your terminal beep. It can be useful for alerting users to certain events or conditions in a command-line application.
Single Beep
This feature allows you to make a single beep sound in the terminal. The code sample demonstrates how to import the 'beeper' package and call it to produce a beep.
const beeper = require('beeper');
beeper();Multiple Beeps
This feature allows you to make multiple beep sounds in the terminal. The code sample demonstrates how to import the 'beeper' package and call it with a number to produce that many beeps.
const beeper = require('beeper');
beeper(3);Custom Beep Patterns
This feature allows you to create custom beep patterns using a string of asterisks and hyphens. The code sample demonstrates how to import the 'beeper' package and call it with a string pattern to produce a custom sequence of beeps.
const beeper = require('beeper');
beeper('****-*-*');The 'node-notifier' package allows you to send cross-platform notifications from your Node.js applications. While it is more focused on visual notifications, it can also produce sound alerts, making it a more versatile but complex alternative to 'beeper'.
The 'cli-alerts' package provides a way to display different types of alerts (info, success, warning, error) in the terminal. It includes sound alerts as part of its functionality, offering a more comprehensive alerting system compared to 'beeper'.
Make your terminal beep
Useful as an attention grabber. For example, when an error happens.
$ npm install beeper
import beeper from 'beeper';
await beeper();
// beep one time
await beeper(3);
// beep three times
await beeper('****-*-*');
// beep, beep, beep, beep, pause, beep, pause, beep
It will not beep if stdout is not TTY or if the user supplies the --no-beep flag.
Returns a Promise<void> that is resolved after the melody has ended.
Type: number
Default: 1
How many times you want it to beep.
Type: string
Construct your own melody by supplying a string of * for beep - for pause.
FAQs
Make your terminal beep
The npm package beeper receives a total of 498,706 weekly downloads. As such, beeper popularity was classified as popular.
We found that beeper demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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