Terminal loading effect.

$ npm install --save loading-cli

const loading =  require('loading-cli');
const load = loading("loading text!!").start()

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

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

Custom text color colors-cli

const color = require('colors-cli/toxic');
const loading = require('loading-cli');

const load = loading("loading text!!".blue).start();
// stop
setTimeout(function(){
  load.stop()
},3000)

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

Type: string Text to display after the spinner.

loading("loading text!!")

Values:black red green yellow blue magenta cyan white gray

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

Start the spinner. Returns the instance.

Stop and clear the spinner. Returns the instance.

Clear the spinner. Returns the instance.

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

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

Stop the spinner, change it to a yellow ⚠ and persist the current text, or text if provided. Returns the instance.

Stop the spinner, change it to a blue ℹ and persist the current text, or text if provided. Returns the instance.

Manually render a new frame. Returns the instance.

Get a new frame.

const loading = require('loading-cli');
const load = loading("loading text!!");
load.frame(["◰", "◳", "◲", "◱"]);
load.start();

Change the text.

Change the spinner color.

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Licensed under the MIT License.