Output while spinning

[mcshaman]

Is it possible to continue the spinner while still printing to stdout?

I am using node to spin up and down servers and I am trying to get the spinner to persist on the last line while logging... However for every line of ora either overwrites the log line or it freezes, at its current state, writes the log line and then starts another spinner.

I can get around it by wrapping all output statements around a query that checks if the spinner is spinning and if so, stop the spinner, print the line and start the spinner again... However it seems like such a common requirement that I figure there must me a way to do this already?

[lone-cloud]

My workaround:

const status = ora().start();
...
status.info('doing stuff').start();

[eahefnawy]

This works:

spinner.clear()
console.log('doing stuff')
spinner.render()

[peterp]

spinner.start("Message...") seems to work nicely