Simple terminal spinners for Deno 🦕

Version 0.4.0

Kia is based on, and has much of the features of, ora. The project was also influenced by the work of: cli-spinners, and CLI Spinners for Deno

import Kia from "https://deno.land/x/[email protected]/mod.ts";

// Just a function to async sleep
function sleep(ms: number) {
	return new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}

const kia: any = new Kia("I will be back in about 3 seconds");
kia.start();
await sleep(3000) // or any other async action that'll take some time
kia.succeed("Action completed");

More thorough examples are available in the examples folder

Kia can be created with a string or the Options interface. A string is simply mapped to Options.text

const kia = new Kia("Hello");
// or
const kia = new Kia({
	text: "Hello",
	color: "Red",
});

You can pass any of the following options to the kia context:

Type: String

Default: ""

The text to display after the spinner

Type: Color

Default: "white"

The color for the spinner to be. Uses the color type in util.ts, which maps to the Deno standard colors.

Type: Spinner

Default: Dependent on OS (See below)

The spinner that the Kia instance should use. There are spinners provided in spinners.ts or you can provide it with an object like so:

    {
        interval: 80,
        frames: ["-", "|"]
    }

On windows the spinner defaults to windows, while on other OSes it defaults to dots.

Spinners can also be imported from anywhere as long as they follow this format. See the examples/externalSpinners.ts example for more info.

Type: number

Default: 0

The level of indentation of the spinner in spaces

Type: boolean

Default: false

Whether or not to display a cursor when the spinner is active

Type: Deno.Writer

Default: Deno.stdout

The resource to output to. This can be anything that uses the Writer interface including stdout, stderr, and files.

Starts the spinner. Optionally sets the text at the same time. Returns Kia instance.

Stops the spinner and clears the line. Returns Kia instance.

Allows you to change the spinners options. Returns Kia instance.

const kia = new Kia("Hello");
kia.set({ text: "Goodbye", color: "Red" });

Stops the spinner, and returns a message with the current text or the provided text as well as an icon indicating status. Wraps around stopWithFlair(). Returns Kia instance.

Stops the spinner, and returns a message with the current text or the provided text as well as the preceding flair/icon. Returns Kia instance.

Stops the spinner and holds it in a static state. Returns the instance.

Renders the next frame of the spinner when it is stopped (i.e. can only be run after .stopAndPersist()).

Returns the current text of the spinner

Returns the current spinner frame

import { forPromise } from "https://deno.land/x/[email protected]/mod.ts";

forPromise(
	async () => {
		await yourAsyncAction();
	},
	{ text: name }
);

Starts a spinner for a promise. The spinner is stopped with .succeed() if the promise fulfills or with .fail() if it rejects. Returns the spinner instance.

Type: Promise