chalk-animation

[Kikobeats]

Now with true color support at chalk 2.0 could be awesomeness a module for create simple terminal colors animations like:

• rainbow (of course!)
• lineal gradient
• loading/karaoke
• pulse/heartbeat
• neon
• need more ideas (?)

[bokub]

Great idea! Do you think it should be part of chalk, or a completely different module?

[Kikobeats]

@bokub I think chalk is tiny and focused, this is more for fun and need to alive in a different but complementary package.

[bokub]

I'm working on it.

[Qix-]

FWIW that example is in the examples/ directory in the chalk project.

[bokub]

So I've created a package called chalk-animation which can output this animated rainbow.
The animations can be stopped and resumed, and the speed is customizable.

As I needed to output gradients in the terminal, I have also created gradient-string, which I use in chalk-animation.

Currently, only the rainbow and the pulse effect are available, so don't hesitate to add new animations and submit your pull requests! 👍

[sindresorhus]

@bokub Nice work!

The readme needs some animated GIFs of the effects though. Users are visual creatures.

[bokub]

@sindresorhus Done! Check it out here

[sindresorhus]

Sexy! Can you do a pull request adding a link to it in the Chalk readme? (The related section)