Feature Request: Progress Bar

[adrianspacely]

Amazing work, Jess. laravel/prompts is mint 👌

I would love to suggest a progress bar component.

It's not really an input, but it is something you could cancel, or it could be combined with a text input - for example entering a URL to download from.

For example:

• Label
• Cancelled state
• Customise the display value for the numerator/denominator
• Pending mode (like a loading spinner variant if progress is unknowable)
• Parallel progress bars? - or maybe parallel output could be a seperate feature of its own
• Maybe Http download support, i.e. sugar for Http::sink('/path/to/file')->withOptions(['progress' => ...])->get($url)

[devajmeireles]

Particularly I think the idea of progress bar is very old. Why not use the spin instead? It is enough that when a process finishes, you call another spin, sequentially:

Perhaps something like that would be awesome:

spin(fn () => sleep(3), 'Installing dependencies...')
    ->then(fn () => sleep(3), 'Preparing environment...')
    ->then(fn () => sleep(3), 'Finishing up...');

[adrianspacely]

Why not use the spin instead?

I had no idea that spin was in here. It's not documented. Thank you for the tip.

Particularly I think the idea of progress bar is very old.

Subjective. For most cases I'd agree. For my needs:

• I have a large file download that I'd prefer to see progress, time elapsed, and time remaining for.
• I've also worked on import commands that work through many files (an unknown amount) where you'd want to know the progress.

I also think a progress component would look cool for job batches as a use-case for the framework.