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| ora | boxen | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 3 | |
| 8,896 | 1,473 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.4 | 3.1 | |
| 4 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
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Interactive Node JS command line
ora
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Prerendering in Angular - Part III
The builder uses ora library for logging out on console
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spinoff - an easy library for displaying spinners in the terminal
I could put it in a fancy terminal window, kind of like ora does it - https://github.com/sindresorhus/ora
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Spinach, a practical terminal spinner library
I was working on a project when I realized there wasn't any spinner library offering an experience close to Ora (js) so I made my own!
- Ora — Elegant terminal spinner
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A Guide to CLIs with Node.js
Asynchronous and time consuming operations are very common in CLIs. We don't want to leave the user thinking his computer has hung up. We'll use the ora package for loaders. Begin by installing ora -
boxen
Posts with mentions or reviews of boxen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-30.
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Interactive Node JS command line
boxen
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Build a business card CLI tool
There are many tools available to help with styling your command line output. For my business card, I used a combination of boxen to draw the box around the content, and chalk to power the font styles and colours. I'll leave this part up to you, but you can view the code on GitHub to see how I did it. Be aware that if you want to use ES6 imports in Node, you'll need to update your index.js file extension to .mjs, and edit the package.json "bin" section accordingly.
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Build a CLI with Node.js
Your CLI is complete now! One thing more that you can do is to decorate the output and errors with boxes and colors, we can do that using boxen and chalk.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ora and boxen you can also consider the following projects:
shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
chalk - 🖍 Terminal string styling done right
columnify - Create text-based columns suitable for console output. Supports cell wrapping.
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.
cli-columns - Columnated lists for the CLI. Unicode and ANSI safe.
progress - Flexible ascii progress bar for nodejs
cross-env
vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs
sparkly - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇