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cli-spinners
Advanced tools
The cli-spinners package provides a collection of spinners for command-line interface (CLI) applications. These spinners can be used to indicate loading or processing status in a visually appealing way to the users of CLI applications.
Displaying Spinners
This feature allows you to display various spinner animations in the terminal. The code sample shows how to require the cli-spinners package and log one of the spinner types, in this case, 'dots'.
const cliSpinners = require('cli-spinners');
console.log(cliSpinners.dots);
Integrating with CLI Applications
This feature demonstrates how to integrate cli-spinners with another package like 'ora' to manage the spinner's lifecycle, including starting, stopping, and displaying success or failure messages.
const ora = require('ora');
const spinner = ora({
text: 'Loading unicorns',
spinner: cliSpinners.dots
}).start();
setTimeout(() => {
spinner.succeed('Unicorns loaded');
}, 1000);
Ora is a popular package that provides spinner functionality for CLI applications. It includes a wide variety of spinner styles and offers an easy-to-use API for controlling the spinner's lifecycle. Compared to cli-spinners, ora is more feature-rich and provides a higher-level API for managing spinners.
Node-spinner is another package that offers spinner functionality for Node.js applications. It is a simpler and more lightweight alternative to cli-spinners, with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. However, it may not have as many spinner options or features as cli-spinners.
CLUI is a collection of Node.js command line UI components, which includes spinner functionality as one of its features. While it provides a broader set of CLI tools beyond just spinners, it can be used in a similar way to cli-spinners for displaying loading indicators in the terminal.
70+ spinners for use in the terminal
The list of spinners is just a JSON file and can be used wherever.
You probably want to use one of these spinners through the ora
module.
npm install cli-spinners
const cliSpinners = require('cli-spinners');
console.log(cliSpinners.dots);
/*
{
interval: 80,
frames: ['⠋', '⠙', '⠹', '⠸', '⠼', '⠴', '⠦', '⠧', '⠇', '⠏']
}
*/
The header GIF is outdated. See all the spinner at once or one at the time.
Each spinner comes with a recommended interval
and an array of frames
.
The random
spinner will return a random spinner each time it's called.
FAQs
Spinners for use in the terminal
The npm package cli-spinners receives a total of 26,700,833 weekly downloads. As such, cli-spinners popularity was classified as popular.
We found that cli-spinners demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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