Its Thinking

Spinner module for Node terminal applications

Fork of wemakeweb/node-spinner, a port of visionmedia/go-spin to node. Also, heavily influenced by helloIAmPau/node-spinner

Installation

1. Install via package manager

$ npm install its-thinking

2. Include in code

var ItsThinking = require("its-thinking");

Examples

See examples directory for more.

Basic Usage

var basicSpinner = new ItsThinking();
basicSpinner.start("Thinkin' 'bout numbers... ");
//And when you're done...
basicSpinner.stop();

Interval

By default, the pattern updates every 250 milliseconds, but that can change by passing a second argument to start.

var longSpinner = new ItsThinking();
longSpinner.start("Thinkin' long and hard 'bout numbers... ", 2000);

Patterns

Uses one of the built-in patterns by passing in an index (0 - 16)

var arrowSpinner = new ItsThinking(16);
arrowSpinner.start("Thinkin' 'bout arrows... ");

...or provide a custom string

var vowelSpinner = new ItsThinking("aeiou");
vowelSpinner.start("Thinkin' 'bout vowels... ");

...or a custom array.

var moreVowelSpinner = new ItsThinking(["a","e","i","o","u","sometimes y"]);
moreVowelSpinner.start("Thinkin' 'bout other vowels... ");

Access built-in patterns directly.

var trippyPattern = ItsThinking.Patterns[11].split("").map(function(item){return "[~> " + item + " <~]"});
var trippySpinner = new ItsThinking(trippyPattern);
trippySpinner.start("Thinkin' 'bout...");

License

MIT