cli-spinners

70+ spinners for use in the terminal

The list of spinners is just a JSON file and can be used wherever.

You probably want to use one of these spinners through the ora package.

Install

npm install cli-spinners

Usage

import cliSpinners from 'cli-spinners';

console.log(cliSpinners.dots);
/*
{
	interval: 80,
	frames: ['⠋', '⠙', '⠹', '⠸', '⠼', '⠴', '⠦', '⠧', '⠇', '⠏']
}
*/

interval is the intended time per frame, in milliseconds.
frames is an array of frames to show for the spinner.

Preview

The header GIF is outdated. See all the spinner at once or one at the time.

API

cliSpinners

Each spinner comes with a recommended interval and an array of frames.

See the spinners.

randomSpinner()

Get a random spinner.

import {randomSpinner} from 'cli-spinners';

console.log(randomSpinner());
/*
{
	interval: 80,
	frames: ['⠋', '⠙', '⠹', '⠸', '⠼', '⠴', '⠦', '⠧', '⠇', '⠏']
}
*/

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