/loading-cli

Terminal loading effect.

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loading-cli

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Terminal loading effect.

Install

$ npm install --save loading-cli

Usage

var loading =  require('loading-cli');
var load = loading("loading text!!")

load.start()

setTimeout(function(){
    load.color = 'yellow';
    load.text = ' Loading rainbows';
},2000)

// stop
setTimeout(function(){
    load.stop()
},3000)

API

loading([options|text])

options

load({
    "text":"loading text!!",
    "color":"yellow",
    "interval":100,
    "stream": process.stdout,
    "frames":["◰", "◳", "◲", "◱"]
})

text

Type: string Text to display after the spinner.

loading("loading text!!")

color

Values:black red green yellow blue magenta cyan white gray

frames

["◰", "◳", "◲", "◱"]
["◐", "◓", "◑", "◒"]
[".", "o", "O", "°", "O", "o", "."]
["⊶", "⊷"]
["ဝ", "၀"]
["←", "↖", "↑", "↗", "→", "↘", "↓", "↙"]
["🕐 ", "🕑 ", "🕒 ", "🕓 ", "🕔 ", "🕕 ", "🕖 ", "🕗 ", "🕘 ", "🕙 ", "🕚 "]

Instance

.start()

Start the spinner. Returns the instance.

.stop()

Stop and clear the spinner. Returns the instance.

.clear()

Clear the spinner. Returns the instance.

.render()

Manually render a new frame. Returns the instance.

.frame()

Get a new frame.

.text

Change the text.

.color

Change the spinner color.