sindresorhus/ora

This system is the 'ora' library, a utility for displaying and managing animated spinners in terminal environments. It provides features for customizing spinner appearance, handling text prefixes and suffixes, and managing terminal input and output safely. The current version is a complete rewrite to ES modules, requiring Node.js 20 and focusing on improved concurrency and Unicode support.

This release is a major rewrite of the ora library, migrating from CommonJS to ES modules and requiring Node.js 20. The API has been updated to use a function call \ora()\ instead of \new Ora()\. New options include \prefixText\ and \suffixText\ (supporting strings or functions) for text before and after the spinner, \indent\ for spacing, \isSilent\ to suppress all output, and \discardStdin\ (default true) to prevent input interference. The \color\ option now accepts \false\ to disable coloring. The library now uses native \stripVTControlCharacters\ instead of \strip-ansi\, handles terminal height overflow to prevent garbage output, and improves concurrent spinner support. TypeScript definitions are included in \index.d.ts\.

(repo-wide) · high confidence

The ora package has been upgraded to version 9.4.1, shifting the runtime requirement to Node.js 20 or higher and adopting an ES module ("type": "module") structure. This update replaces several legacy dependencies with modern equivalents: chalk is upgraded from v1 to v5, cli-cursor from v1 to v5, cli-spinners from v0.1 to v3, and string-width from v0.1 to v8. New dependencies such as is-interactive, is-unicode-supported, log-symbols, and stdin-discarder have been added to enhance terminal interaction and Unicode support, while dev dependencies like xo and tsd have been updated to their latest versions.

(dependencies) · high confidence

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• CAI 43 → 51 (+8.3)
• Rubric changed (rubric-2026.09.12 → rubric-2026.09.18) — scores are not directly comparable.

• Code Health 48 → 49 (+0.1)
• Architecture 89 → 100 (+10.8)
• Maturity 50 → 54 (+3.9)
• Readiness 26 → 38 (+12.3)
• Security 92 → 94 (+2.0)
• Performance 100 (new)

• Change coupling: index.test-d.ts ↔ test.js (index.test-d.ts)
• Hotspot: index.js (index.js)
• No automated tests
• No tests found
• Off-boarding risk: anonymized user #1
• Test reliability not included

• Off-boarding risk: anonymized user #1

• 1 commits — 1 feature/other, 0 fixes

• .github/security.md — 1 commit

• change: Meta tweaks

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