Is there a method for printing to the console without a trailing newline? The console object documentation doesn\'t say anything regarding that:
As an expansion/enhancement to the brilliant addition made by @rodowi above regarding being able to overwrite a row:
process.stdout.write("Downloading " + data.length + " bytes\r");
Should you not want the terminal cursor to be located at the first character, as I saw in my code, the consider doing the following:
let dots = ''
process.stdout.write(`Loading `)
let tmrID = setInterval(() => {
dots += '.'
process.stdout.write(`\rLoading ${dots}`)
}, 1000)
setTimeout(() => {
clearInterval(tmrID)
console.log(`\rLoaded in [3500 ms]`)
}, 3500)
By placing the \r in front of the next print statement the cursor is reset just before the replacing string overwrites the previous.