ANanonfunction·Apr 8, 2016
If you like this you'll love gifi[1] which plays a gif instead of npm's loading bar.
1. https://github.com/vdemedes/gifi
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gifi
watch GIFs while running npm install
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Feb 22 | 2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Feb 29 | 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Mar 7 | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Mar 14 | 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 21 | 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28 | 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 4 | 2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |