The SUPERFLEXIBLE star rating system – the future of star rating in the Terminal

Siddharth - Jul 7 '21 - - Dev Community

In the last few days, many people made star rating systems for the web. But nobody could build one in the terminal, so I am presenting the "star rating" that will change the world universe!

And I call it – SUPERFLEXIBLE

star-rating

Now, why colour the whole star when you can fine-tune however the star is colored?

Screen Shot

The implementation is pretty much the same as my previous star rating, except I have just changed the stars and hardcoded it in another file:

module.exports = {
  0: 
`    A
___/_\\___
 ',. ..'
 /.'^'.\\
/'     '\\`,
  1: 
`    \u001b[31mA
\u001b[0m___\u001b[31m/_\\\u001b[0m___
 ',. ..'
 /.'^'.\\
/'     '\\`,
  2: 
`    \u001b[31mA
\u001b[0m___\u001b[31m/_\\___
 \u001b[0m',. \u001b[31m..' \u001b[0m
 /.'^'.\\
/'     '\\`,
  3: 
`    \u001b[31mA
\u001b[0m___\u001b[31m/_\\___
 \u001b[0m',. \u001b[31m..' \u001b[0m
 /.'^\u001b[31m'.\\\u001b[0m
/'     \u001b[31m'\\\u001b[0m`,
  4: 
`    \u001b[31mA
\u001b[0m___\u001b[31m/_\\___
 \u001b[0m',. \u001b[31m..' \u001b[0m
 \u001b[31m/.'^'.\\
/'     '\\\u001b[0m`,u can 
  5: 
`    \u001b[31mA
___/_\\___
 ',. ..'
 /.'^'.\\
/'     '\\\u001b[0m`
}
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The usage is also same: m to increase, l to decrease, and <number> to set the rating

The beauty of this method is that you can just change the stars and the rating still works. Try changing the exports in the stars.js file and see how much customizability you can have.

  • Plus big fixes Now you can't rate more than the max
  • Plus big fixes Now you can press 0 to set the rating ot 0
  • Plus Improvements Everything is automated and the only thing you have to change is in the stars.js file. Try editing it.

Here are some alternate ratings:

Smileys!

star-rating

Go check out the REPL, and try modifying the stars.js file. And if you design any nice star ratings with it, let me know!

Our old stars

star-rating

Text

star-rating

Shading star

star-rating

Rocket (I couldn't help myself)

star-rating

I'm getting good at text art

There's more! Feel free to try editing the stars.js file and tell me in the comments if you find nice ones!

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