marquee-ora

A tool to create an ora compatible spinner object that behaves like a scrolling marquee

Install

npm install --save marquee-ora

Usage

This module is to be used in conjunction with ora the elegant terminal spinner.

const ora = require('ora');
const marquee = require('marquee');
 
const spinner = ora({
  text: 'This is a scrolling marquee',
  spinner: marquee({text: 'This marquee rocks!!'})
});
 
spinner.start();
 
setTimeout(() => {
  spinner.stop();
}, 3000);

This gif looks really slow, but the default interval isn't this bad, this is just the gif appearing slow

const ora = require('ora');
const marquee = require('marquee');
 
const spinner = ora({
  text: 'This is a scrolling marquee',
  spinner: marquee({
    text: 'Pause when fully in view',
    fullTextFrames: 15,
    interval: 50
  })
});
 
spinner.start();
 
setTimeout(() => {
  spinner.stop();
}, 3000);

Options

text

type: String *required

Required text to be scrolled in the marquee

fill

type: String default=' '

The character to use for the empty space that isn't your text. Defaults to a single space, which looks pretty good.

fullTextFrames

type: Integer default=1

The number of frames to have the full text pause in the marquee. This option isn't valid if the viewWidth is smaller than the text length. (It makes no sense because the full text cant be displayed in this case)

viewWidth

type: Integer default=text.length

The character width for the marquee. If larger than text length, you will get padding of the fill. If smaller than text length, then you won't be able to see the full text at one time.

interval

type: Integer default=100

Number of milliseconds for each "frame" to be active. This is passed directly to ora's interval option

Example using All Options

const ora = require('ora');
const marquee = require('./index');
 
const spinner = ora({
  text: 'This is a scrolling marquee',
  spinner: marquee({
    text: 'Using lots of options',
    fullTextFrames: 8,
    viewWidth: 29,
    fill: '-',
    interval: 20
  })
});
 
spinner.start();
 
setTimeout(() => {
  spinner.stop();
}, 3000);