tora-spinner v1.0.5

Install

With npm

npm i tora-spinner

With yarn

yarn add tora-spinner

Usage

import tora from "tora-spinner";

const spinner = tora({ text: "Loading…" });

async function main() {
  await spinner.start();

  // Do some work
  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));

  await spinner.stop("Stopped.");

  // Kill spinner worker thread
  spinner.terminate();
}

main();

API

tora(options?)

Creates a new spinner instance.

options

Type: object

text

Type: string\ Default: ''

The text to display next to the spinner.

spinner

Type: object\ Default:

Customize the spinner animation with a custom set of frames and interval.

{
	frames: ['-', '\\', '|', '/'],
	interval: 100,
}

Pass in any spinner from cli-spinners.

color

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

The color of the spinner.

stream

Type: stream.Writable\ Default: process.stderr

The stream to which the spinner is written.

Instance methods

.start(text?)

Starts the spinner.

Returns the instance.

Optionally, updates the text:

spinner.start("Loading…");

.stop(finalText?)

Stops the spinner.

Returns the instance.

Optionally displays a final message.

spinner.stop("Stopped.");

.success(text?)

Stops the spinner and displays a success symbol with the message.

Returns the instance.

spinner.success("Success!");

.error(text?)

Stops the spinner and displays an error symbol with the message.

Returns the instance.

spinner.error("Error!");

.warning(text?)

Stops the spinner and displays a warning symbol with the message.

Returns the instance.

spinner.warning("Warning!");

.clear()

Clears the spinner.

Returns the instance.

.info(text?)

Stops the spinner and displays an info symbol with the message.

Returns the instance.

.terminate()

Kills the spinner worker thread.

Returns void.

spinner.info("Info.");

.text get/set

Change the text displayed next to the spinner.

spinner.text = "New text";

.color get/set

Change the spinner color.

.isSpinning get

Returns whether the spinner is currently spinning.

Credits

• ora - terminal spinner
• yocto-spinner - terminal spinner