multi-progress-bars

A node utility written in Typescript for displaying multiple progress bars, and preserving logged output. The progress bars can be anchored to the top or bottom of the terminal, with border options and indefinite progress display. A Promise will resolve when all tasks are done. This utility is enabled by a simple virtual console that intercepts the normal console. See the below demo .gifs.

Anchoring to the top. Notice how the logs are preserved:

Anchoring to the bottom:

Showing off borders customizability and overflow management:

Install

npm install multi-progress-bars or yarn add multi-progress-bars

Quickstart

import { MultiProgressBars } from 'multi-progress-bars';
import * as chalk from 'chalk';

// Initialize mpb
const mpb = new MultiProgressBars({
    initMessage: ' $ Example Fullstack Build ',
    anchor: 'top',
    persist: true,
    border: true,
});

// Add tasks
mpb.addTask('Webpack Backend', { type: 'percentage', barColorFn: chalk.yellow });
mpb.addTask('Watcher', { type: 'indefinite', message: 'Watching for changes...' });

// Update tasks
mpb.updateTask('Webpack Backend', { percentage: 0.2 });
mpb.incrementTask('Webpack Backend', { percentage: 0.1 });

// Console logging is overridden and tracked with an interval buffer
console.log('Warning!');

setTimeout(() => { mpb.done('Webpack Backend', { message: 'Build finished.' })}, 5000);
setTimeout(() => { mpb.done('Watcher', { message: 'Build finished.' })}, 1000);

// Wait for all tasks to finish
await mpb.promise;
console.log('Finish');

See the Documentation for more information.

Version Changes

:warning: v4 -> v5 has breaking changes.

• Library now defaults to ESM. Dependencies on chalk and related libraries are now updated to the latest, which default to ESM.
• For building, node needs to be >14.18 because of Rollup 3

:warning: v3 -> v4 has breaking changes.

User-Facing Changes:

• barColorFn is now barTransformFn, and a new property nameTransformFn has been added to transform task names appearance.
• Number of progress bars displayed will be truncated to terminal height (accounting for borders)
• Upon exiting, will dump the full untruncated list of progress bars if the above was true.
• API added for removing tasks, with option to shift up the tasks or leave a blank line.
• API added for getting the index of a specific task, or getting the name of a task given the index.
• Extra border options in constructor as well as API to set or remove headers and footers.
• Bottom-anchored progress bars now has bottom border if border is set to true in the constructor.

:warning: v2 -> v3 technically has breaking changes in behavior nuance, but should be backwards-compatible. The changes are the addition of anchor position, border, and persist. If you pass in true for persist, you should call mpb.close() when you are done, or on SIGINT for example. Multi-line init messages are now clamped to the first line.

Documentation

• Usage guide
• API guide
• Changelog
• Examples

Hilbert Spinner

Included in this library is a (imo) cool Hilbert Curve / Space-Filling Curve spinner. It uses the Braille dots to do a little snake that crawls throughout the bar. There is probably a more efficient way to code the crawling, as this uses sort of an 'implicit' approach, instead of an 'explicit', which might require less calculation.

License

MIT

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