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Put a little spinner on process.stderr, as unobtrusively as possible.
Put a little spinner on process.stderr, as unobtrusively as possible.
var spinner = require("char-spinner")
// All options are optional
// even the options argument itself is optional
spinner(options)
Usually the defaults are what you want. Mostly they're just configurable for testing purposes.
stream
Output stream. Default=process.stderr
tty
Only show spinner if output stream has a truish .isTTY
. Default=true
string
String of chars to spin. Default='/-\\|'
interval
Number of ms between frames, bigger = slower. Default=50
cleanup
Print '\r \r'
to stream on process exit. Default=true
unref
Unreference the spinner interval so that the process can
exit normally. Default=true
delay
Number of frames to "skip over" before printing the spinner.
Useful if you want to avoid showing the spinner for very fast
actions. Default=2
Returns the generated interval, if one was created.
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Put a little spinner on process.stderr, as unobtrusively as possible.
The npm package char-spinner receives a total of 143,970 weekly downloads. As such, char-spinner popularity was classified as popular.
We found that char-spinner 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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