ora
Elegant terminal spinner (by sindresorhus)
vorpal
Node's framework for interactive CLIs (by dthree)
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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 -
vorpal
Posts with mentions or reviews of vorpal.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-03.
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Use GNU Emacs
I occasionally try that as well and it sometimes helps but not for things like node apps that use https://vorpal.js.org REPLs. They just aren't usable in shell-mode.
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google/zx: write shell scripts in JavaScript
Got it, so more about the general idea of using Node to interact with a shell. Fair points but I'm not sure that's where zx falls. I'm looking at it in relation to projects like commander, oclif, and vorpal— frameworks for authoring and packaging local-use CLI tools written in JS, typically aimed at people who know JS and work in a terminal but don't know shell scripting. Those have the overhead of learning a framework, and don't do anything to help you work with the shell. zx seems to come from the other direction: instead of an esoteric framework, shell concepts and shell commands in a Node script.
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Ask a question before a git commit when committing to a certain folder
Assuming the project uses node, and admittedly it's a lil overkill, but you could use vorpal.
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Use command from terminal?
Are you wanting to run your nodejs app, and then control it within the same terminal it is running in? If so, take a look at vorpal
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ora and vorpal you can also consider the following projects:
shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
blessed - A high-level terminal interface library for node.js.
chalk - 🖍 Terminal string styling done right
Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
multispinner - Multiple, simultaneous, individually controllable spinners for concurrent tasks in Node.js CLI programs
yargs - yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist.
cli-table - Pretty unicode tables for the CLI with Node.JS
progress - Flexible ascii progress bar for nodejs
string-width - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it