terminal-textticker

A scrolling text ticker in terminal

Demo

Install

npm install terminal-textticker

Usage

var textTicker = require('terminal-textticker');

var sayings = [
  'Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.',
  "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.",
  'Change breaks the brittle.'
];

var index = 0;

textTicker({
  text: sayings[0],
  duration: 50,
}, function(text) {
  setTimeout(function() {
    var nextSaying = index <= 1 ? (index += 1, sayings[index]) : (index = 0, sayings[index]);
    textTicker.setText(nextSaying);
    textTicker.reload();
  }, 4e3);
});

Resources

The browser version of this is also available, textticker.

License

MIT