ora

  • Version 9.3.0
  • Published
  • 38.1 kB
  • 8 dependencies
  • MIT license

Install

npm i ora
yarn add ora
pnpm add ora

Overview

Elegant terminal spinner

Index

Functions

function ora

ora: (options?: string | Options) => Ora;
  • Elegant terminal spinner.

    Parameter options

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

    Example 1

    import ora from 'ora';
    const spinner = ora('Loading unicorns').start();
    setTimeout(() => {
    spinner.color = 'yellow';
    spinner.text = 'Loading rainbows';
    }, 1000);

function oraPromise

oraPromise: <T>(
action: PromiseLike<T> | ((spinner: Ora) => PromiseLike<T>),
options?: string | PromiseOptions<T>
) => Promise<T>;
  • Starts a spinner for a promise or promise-returning function. The spinner is stopped with .succeed() if the promise fulfills or with .fail() if it rejects.

    Parameter action

    The promise to start the spinner for or a promise-returning function.

    Parameter options

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

    Returns

    The given promise.

    Example 1

    import {oraPromise} from 'ora';
    await oraPromise(somePromise);

Interfaces

interface Ora

interface Ora {}

    property color

    color: Color | boolean;
    • Change the spinner color.

    property indent

    indent: number;
    • Change the spinner indent.

    property prefixText

    prefixText: string;
    • Change the text or function that returns text before the spinner.

      No prefix text will be displayed if set to an empty string.

    property suffixText

    suffixText: string;
    • Change the text or function that returns text after the spinner text.

      No suffix text will be displayed if set to an empty string.

    property text

    text: string;
    • Change the text after the spinner.

    method clear

    clear: () => this;
    • Clear the spinner.

      Returns

      The spinner instance.

    method fail

    fail: (text?: string) => this;
    • Stop the spinner, change it to a red and persist the current text, or text if provided.

      Parameter text

      Will persist text if provided.

      Returns

      The spinner instance.

    method frame

    frame: () => string;
    • Get a new frame.

      Returns

      The spinner instance text.

    method info

    info: (text?: string) => this;
    • Stop the spinner, change it to a blue and persist the current text, or text if provided.

      Parameter text

      Will persist text if provided.

      Returns

      The spinner instance.

    method render

    render: () => this;
    • Manually render a new frame.

      Returns

      The spinner instance.

    method start

    start: (text?: string) => this;
    • Start the spinner.

      Parameter text

      Set the current text.

      Returns

      The spinner instance.

    method stop

    stop: () => this;
    • Stop and clear the spinner.

      Returns

      The spinner instance.

    method stopAndPersist

    stopAndPersist: (options?: PersistOptions) => this;
    • Stop the spinner and change the symbol or text.

      Returns

      The spinner instance.

    method succeed

    succeed: (text?: string) => this;
    • Stop the spinner, change it to a green and persist the current text, or text if provided.

      Parameter text

      Will persist text if provided.

      Returns

      The spinner instance.

    method warn

    warn: (text?: string) => this;
    • Stop the spinner, change it to a yellow and persist the current text, or text if provided.

      Parameter text

      Will persist text if provided.

      Returns

      The spinner instance.

    index signature

    get spinner(): Spinner;
    • Get the spinner.

    index signature

    set spinner(spinner: SpinnerName | Spinner);
    • Set the spinner.

    index signature

    get isSpinning(): boolean;
    • A boolean indicating whether the instance is currently spinning.

    index signature

    get interval(): number;
    • The interval between each frame.

      The interval is decided by the chosen spinner.

    Type Aliases

    type Color

    type Color =
    | 'black'
    | 'red'
    | 'green'
    | 'yellow'
    | 'blue'
    | 'magenta'
    | 'cyan'
    | 'white'
    | 'gray';

      type Options

      type Options = {
      /**
      The text to display next to the spinner.
      */
      readonly text?: string;
      /**
      Text or a function that returns text to display before the spinner. No prefix text will be displayed if set to an empty string.
      */
      readonly prefixText?: string | PrefixTextGenerator;
      /**
      Text or a function that returns text to display after the spinner text. No suffix text will be displayed if set to an empty string.
      */
      readonly suffixText?: string | SuffixTextGenerator;
      /**
      The name of one of the provided spinners. See `example.js` in this repo if you want to test out different spinners. On Windows (except for Windows Terminal), it will always use the line spinner as the Windows command-line doesn't have proper Unicode support.
      @default 'dots'
      Or an object like:
      @example
      ```
      {
      frames: ['-', '+', '-'],
      interval: 80 // Optional
      }
      ```
      */
      readonly spinner?: SpinnerName | Spinner;
      /**
      The color of the spinner.
      @default 'cyan'
      */
      readonly color?: Color | boolean;
      /**
      Set to `false` to stop Ora from hiding the cursor.
      @default true
      */
      readonly hideCursor?: boolean;
      /**
      Indent the spinner with the given number of spaces.
      @default 0
      */
      readonly indent?: number;
      /**
      Interval between each frame.
      Spinners provide their own recommended interval, so you don't really need to specify this.
      Default: Provided by the spinner or `100`.
      */
      readonly interval?: number;
      /**
      Stream to write the output.
      You could for example set this to `process.stdout` instead.
      @default process.stderr
      */
      readonly stream?: NodeJS.WritableStream;
      /**
      Force enable/disable the spinner. If not specified, the spinner will be enabled if the `stream` is being run inside a TTY context (not spawned or piped) and/or not in a CI environment.
      Note that `{isEnabled: false}` doesn't mean it won't output anything. It just means it won't output the spinner, colors, and other ansi escape codes. It will still log text.
      */
      readonly isEnabled?: boolean;
      /**
      Disable the spinner and all log text. All output is suppressed and `isEnabled` will be considered `false`.
      @default false
      */
      readonly isSilent?: boolean;
      /**
      Discard stdin input (except Ctrl+C) while running if it's TTY. This prevents the spinner from twitching on input, outputting broken lines on `Enter` key presses, and prevents buffering of input while the spinner is running.
      This has no effect on Windows as there is no good way to implement discarding stdin properly there.
      Note: `discardStdin` puts stdin into raw mode. In raw mode, `Ctrl+C` no longer generates `SIGINT` from the terminal. Ora re-emits `Ctrl+C` from stdin input, but if your code blocks the event loop with synchronous work, `Ctrl+C` handling is delayed until the blocking work ends. Use async APIs, a worker thread, or a child process to keep `Ctrl+C` responsive, or set `discardStdin` to `false`.
      @default true
      */
      readonly discardStdin?: boolean;
      };

        type PersistOptions

        type PersistOptions = {
        /**
        Symbol to replace the spinner with.
        @default ' '
        */
        readonly symbol?: string;
        /**
        Text to be persisted after the symbol.
        Default: Current `text`.
        */
        readonly text?: string;
        /**
        Text or a function that returns text to be persisted before the symbol. No prefix text will be displayed if set to an empty string.
        Default: Current `prefixText`.
        */
        readonly prefixText?: string | PrefixTextGenerator;
        /**
        Text or a function that returns text to be persisted after the text after the symbol. No suffix text will be displayed if set to an empty string.
        Default: Current `suffixText`.
        */
        readonly suffixText?: string | SuffixTextGenerator;
        };

          type PrefixTextGenerator

          type PrefixTextGenerator = () => string;

            type PromiseOptions

            type PromiseOptions<T> = {
            /**
            The new text of the spinner when the promise is resolved.
            Keeps the existing text if `undefined`.
            */
            successText?: string | ((result: T) => string) | undefined;
            /**
            The new text of the spinner when the promise is rejected.
            Keeps the existing text if `undefined`.
            */
            failText?: string | ((error: Error) => string) | undefined;
            } & Options;

              type Spinner

              type Spinner = {
              readonly interval?: number;
              readonly frames: string[];
              };

                type SuffixTextGenerator

                type SuffixTextGenerator = () => string;

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