progress 2.0.3

The progress npm package provides a flexible ASCII progress bar. It enhances user experience for console-based applications by visually tracking and displaying the progress of an ongoing operation.

progress can be installed via npm using the command npm install progress. After installation, you can create a ProgressBar by specifying a format string and a total count which is the complete count of operations. Further steps include calling the tick() function appropriately to increment the progress bar.

Here's a basic usage example:

var ProgressBar = require('progress');
var bar = new ProgressBar(':bar', { total: 10 });
var timer = setInterval(function () {
  bar.tick();
  if (bar.complete) {
    console.log('\ncomplete\n');
    clearInterval(timer);
  }
}, 100);

Besides, the progress package allows customization of the progress bar through various options and tokens. For example:

var bar = new ProgressBar(':current: :token1 :token2', { total: 3 })
bar.tick({
  'token1': "Hello",
  'token2': "World!\n"
})

This feature enables developers to provide detailed, real-time updates about the operation to users in an engaging fashion.

You can find the complete documentation for the progress package in the readme file at the GitHub repository: git://github.com/visionmedia/node-progress.git. The readme file includes detailed descriptions, code usage examples, options, tokens, and customization methods. Here you'll find all the required information to utilize this package in your project.