I'm working with JavaScript/Node and have a Websocket with a server that is sending a constantly updating string. My goal is to log the string dynamically in the console, so if the sequence of strings from the stream is
[string1, string1, string2, string2, string2, string3], then rather than have the console show
string1
string1
string2
string2
string2
string3
I want the console to show
stringI
Where stringI is constantly updating and I is in {1,2,3}
Currently, I'm doing this with
process.stdout.clearLine(0)
process.stdout.cursorTo(0)
process.stdout.write(new_string)
But I run into issues when the string is greater than one line length in the console.
Does anyone know how I can dynamically overwrite a constantly updating string in the console? Thanks!
truncation could be an easy option:
const { exec } = require("child_process");
exec("truncate -s 0 console.log");