Clrscr

A simple cross-plateform utility to clear a CLI screen in JavaScript (equivalent to Ctrl+r on Linux or Mac).

Why ?

When I ran my projet in watch mode to develop on it, I didn't give a shit on the previous logs of a webpack, an eslint (or other tools like that). So, I needed a way to clearify screen. I didn't find tool which do that correclty so I wrote my own.

Usage

To install it (for development), as usual, just tap :

• On Yarn : yarn add clrscr --dev
• On NPM : npm i --save-dev clrscr

Then, you can call it from yours NPM scripts. For example, if you want watch your files and fire a linting after each change without having the logs of the previous version, you could write this in your package.json.

{
  "name": "My-project",
  "scripts": {
    "lint": "clrscr && eslint ./src",
    "lint:watch": "watch 'yarn lint' ./src"
  }
}

If you run yarn lint:watch (ou npm run lint:watch) you will see that :

You can use to clr instead of clrscr to be more concise.

Credit

This module is strongly inspired of how Jest (the famous Unit test Framework) cleans the screen before each run.