Toggle the CLI cursor
The cursor is gracefully restored if the process exits.
npm install cli-cursor
import cliCursor from 'cli-cursor';
cliCursor.hide();
const unicornsAreAwesome = true;
cliCursor.toggle(unicornsAreAwesome);
Useful for showing or hiding the cursor based on a boolean.
Type: stream.Writable
Default: process.stderr
The ansi-escapes package provides a collection of ANSI escape codes, including codes to hide and show the cursor. It offers more general functionality for manipulating the terminal, whereas cli-cursor is specifically focused on cursor visibility.
Terminal-kit is a full-featured terminal handling library that includes methods for cursor visibility, among many other terminal manipulation features. It is a more comprehensive solution compared to the focused functionality of cli-cursor.
Inquirer is a library for creating interactive command-line user interfaces. While it does not directly provide methods to hide or show the cursor, it manages cursor visibility internally as part of its UI rendering process, which can be considered a similar functionality in a broader context.
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Toggle the CLI cursor
The npm package cli-cursor receives a total of 73,590,992 weekly downloads. As such, cli-cursor popularity was classified as popular.
We found that cli-cursor demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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