# visionmedia/node-progress

Flexible ascii progress bar for nodejs

Repository: https://github.com/visionmedia/node-progress
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/node-progress
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-02-13T23:42:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5614, "days_push": 1297, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2987, forks 218 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:34.397157+00:00)

## What it is
A lightweight Node.js library for rendering flexible ASCII progress bars in the terminal. It supports format strings with tokens like percent, ETA, and rate, plus custom tokens and configurable bar characters.

## Use cases
- show a progress bar while downloading a file in node
- display CLI task completion progress with ETA
- render an ascii progress bar for batch processing
- track upload or download progress in a node script
- add a terminal progress indicator to a long-running script

## When to choose
- you need a simple, dependency-free terminal progress bar in Node.js
- you want customizable format tokens like ETA, rate, and percent
- your CLI tool needs lightweight progress feedback without a full TUI framework

## When to avoid
- you need rich interactive terminal UIs with multiple widgets
- you are building a browser or GUI application
- you need actively developed features or frequent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: developer-tools, terminal-ui
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: progress-bar, ascii, terminal-output, cli-ux, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- visionmedia/node-progress (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:34.397157+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:47:27.668303+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/visionmedia/node-progress (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:34.397157+00:00, sha 6a2169b26ed7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.