sindresorhus/ora

Cannot display two spinners at the same time

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ipeychev commented

Hello, I'm using ora 3.4.0 on MacOS Mojave with Terminal Version 2.9.4 (421.1.1).

It seems I cannot create two spinnners in the same time and handle their progress. Here is the code:

const ora = require('ora');

const one = ora('test1').start();
const two = ora('test2').start();

setTimeout(() => {
  one.text = 'test1 in progress';
  two.text = 'test2 in progress';
}, 1000);

setTimeout(() => {
  one.succeed('test1 finished successfully');
  two.succeed('test2 finished successfully');
}, 2000);

And here is the result:

record

I would expect the first spinner to stay there and not to disappear. Is that by purpose or this is an issue?

a-sierra commented

Hi @ipeychev! It seems that ora doesn't support multiple spinners. I was struggling with this same problem last week until I found spinnies, another library that supports multiple spinners and has a very similar API. It would be great if there was any plan to support more than one spinner instance at the time in ora!

ngocdaothanh commented

You may want to use listr: https://www.npmjs.com/package/listr.

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FireController1847 commented

Just out of curiosity, is there any discussion regarding if this feature is going to be supported or not?

cumt-robin commented

I'm also curious about this problem