cli-spinners VS ora

Compare cli-spinners vs ora and see what are their differences.

cli-spinners

Spinners for use in the terminal (by sindresorhus)

ora

Elegant terminal spinner (by sindresorhus)
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cli-spinners ora
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2,352 8,896
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6.5 5.4
5 months ago 4 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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cli-spinners

Posts with mentions or reviews of cli-spinners. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-17.
  • How to do licenses?
    2 projects | /r/github | 17 Mar 2023
    No. I just remembered the rich package of Python. And here is how it handles the same problem. It is also licensed under MIT, and for implementing the CLI spinners, the maintainers decided to distribute another not less famous, MIT-licensed cli-spinners. Just see the rich/_spinners.py file. They added the license notice of the cli-spinners right on the top of the file.
  • Terminal spinner progress indicator
    3 projects | /r/PowerShell | 28 Aug 2022
    I know that there are a number of terminal progress indicators for Powershell that can be used throughout a script (and a number of WPF ones). But I'd like to implement something similar to a spinner indicator instead of just a bar that gets filled up (e.g. the Write-Progress cmdlet). This is the only thing I've found that is close to what I'm looking for, however, I want the progress indicator to be to the left of the command and in-line instead of the way it's presented in that cmdlet.

ora

Posts with mentions or reviews of ora. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cli-spinners and ora you can also consider the following projects:

shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js

chalk - 🖍 Terminal string styling done right

multispinner - Multiple, simultaneous, individually controllable spinners for concurrent tasks in Node.js CLI programs

Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.

progress - Flexible ascii progress bar for nodejs

vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs

string-width - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it

listr - Terminal task list

boxen - Create boxes in the terminal

Figlet - JavaScript parser for FIGlet fonts

yargs - yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist.

gulp-execa - Gulp.js command execution for humans