Show Deno Cache Download Progress #211
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Developer Experience
Issue mainly concerns the experience for UIX developers
enhancement
New feature or request
good first issue
Good for newcomers
suggestion
Suggestion for a new feature
⭐ Suggestion
Whenever Deno (re-)loads its caches, show a status message that lets the user know that something is going on. In a first implementation, stdout of the
deno
command could simply be piped to the UIX user. A more favorable solution would ultimately be the live parsing ofdeno
's stdout to only show a one-line concise status message about which modules are currently being downloaded.📃 Motivating Example
Especially on slower internet connections, it can sometimes take a minute or more for Deno to populate the caches. In the current implementation, the user simply sees as blank terminal screen. The only way to distinguish it from a hanging black box would be to open up a network inspector software and see if
Deno
is actively pulling data from the network.Having a live status message would further reduce the perception of UIX being "slow" when it's actually doing a lot of reasonable work under the hood.
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