ora

Elegant terminal spinner

Install

$ npm install --save ora

Usage

const ora = require('ora');

const spinner = ora('Loading unicorns').start();

setTimeout(() => {
	spinner.color = 'yellow';
	spinner.text = 'Loading rainbows';
}, 1000);

API

It will gracefully not do anything when there's no TTY or when in a CI.

ora([options|text])

If a string is provided, it is treated as a shortcut for options.text.

options

Type: object

text

Type: string

Text to display after the spinner.

spinner

Type: string object
Default: dots

Name of one of the provided spinners. See example.js in this repo if you want to test out different spinners.

Or an object like:

{
	interval: 80, // optional
	frames: ['-', '+', '-']
}

color

Type: string
Default: cyan
Values: black red green yellow blue magenta cyan white gray

Color of the spinner.

interval

Type: number
Default: Provided by the spinner or 100

Interval between each frame.

Spinners provide their own recommended interval, so you don't really need to specify this.

stream

Type: WritableStream
Default: process.stderr

Stream to write the output.

You could for example set this to process.stdout instead.

enabled

Type: boolean
Default: false

Force enabling of the spinner regardless of the stream not being run inside a TTY context and/or in a CI environment.

Instance

.start()

Start the spinner. Returns the instance.

.stop()

Stop and clear the spinner. Returns the instance.

.succeed()

Stop the spinner, change it to a green ✔ and persist the text. Returns the instance. See the GIF below.

.fail()

Stop the spinner, change it to a red ✖ and persist the text. Returns the instance. See the GIF below.

.stopAndPersist([symbol])

Stop the spinner, change it to symbol (or ' ' if symbol is not provided) and persist the text. Returns the instance. See the GIF below.

.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.

.promise(action, [options|text])

Starts a spinner for a promise. The spinner is stopped with .succeed() if the promise fulfills or with .fail() if it rejects. Returns the spinner instance.

action

Type: Promise

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