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Smoothing function for progress bars (e.g. upload, download, etc.)
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progress-smoother
Smoothing Function for Progress Bars
npm install progress-smoother
const { ProgressSmoother } = require("progress-smoother")
const progress = ProgressSmoother({
// Required.
maxValue: 12345, // Maximum value of your progress bar.
valueIncreaseRatePerSecond: 5000, // Estimated minimum throughput for '.setValue()' calls.
valueIncreaseDelta: 500, // Estimated minimum delta between '.setValue()' calls.
averageTimeBetweenValues: 5000, // Estimated mean time between '.setValue()' calls in milliseconds.
minDelayUntilFirstValue: 6000, // Estimated minimum delay until the first '.setValue()' call is made.
// Optional.
teardownTime: 2000 // Latency your app introduces after 100% progress (the function incorporates it).
});
// Report progress events:
progress.setValue(1025);
progress.setValue(3201);
...
progress.setValue(12345);
// Get smoothed progress any time (e.g. on a fixed interval):
progress.smoothedFactor(); // Returns 0..1
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Smoothing function for progress bars (e.g. upload, download, etc.)
The npm package progress-smoother receives a total of 9,195 weekly downloads. As such, progress-smoother popularity was classified as popular.
We found that progress-smoother demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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