cebo

cebo, or c'est beau in french, is a very simple library that allow to display spinners in terminals.

Installation

This is a Node.js module available through the npm registry.

Before installing, download and install Node.js v14.X.X or higher.

Installation is done using the npm install command:

npm install cebo

Features

• Simple tasker with fail or success exit
• Simple spinner runner
• can be used with cli-spinners

Quick start

For a simple spinner :

import { Spinner } from 'cebo'

const spinner = new Spinner('Connecting to database')
setTimeout(() => {
  spinner.success('Connected to database')
}, 2000)

For a hole task :

import { Task } from 'cebo'

await new Task('Connecting to database...', async task => {
  // Doing stuff here ...
  await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 2000))
  task.fail('Connected to database')
}).run()
await new Task('Creating http server...', async task => {
  // Doing stuff here ...
  await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 3000))
  task.success('HTTP server listening on port 8000')
}).run()

Documentation

Promise, all stuff is very simple and quick.

Spinner

Spinner(options)

Create a new spinner. Options can be a string that will be used as spinner text.

Also options can be an object as (here with default values):

new Spinner({
  text: '',
  color: 'yellow',
  spinner: {
    interval: 100,
    frames: ['◜', '◠', '◝', '◞', '◡', '◟'],
  },
  autoStart: true,
  successChar: '✔',
  successCharColor: 'green',
  failChar: '✖',
  failCharColor: 'red',
})

Spinner.start()

Start the spinner, already started by default.

Spinner.stop()

Pause the spinner.

Spinner.fail(text)

Stop and mark as fail the spinner.

Spinner.success(text)

Stop and mark as success the spinner.

Task

Task(text, callback, ?spinner)

text parameter is the pending spinner text.

callback receive task instance as parameter, can be asynchronous.

spinner is optionnal, provide a custom spinner.

Task.run()

This method is an async because of async callbacks.

Pilosophy

This package follow the following rule :

If it is useless, so it is necessary.

That's all, have a good day =D

License

Please check the MIT License