Display an installation message to user in the CLI

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The Problem:

We want to show a message to the user while a module is being fetched from npm and being installed in the background.

How to Solve?

You can print the message to the user's screen like this

console.log("Please wait while your Module is being Installed...\nThis may take a while!");

This line can be added above this one.

image-sequencer/index.js

Line 30 in 88364de

var params = program.installModule.split(' ');

Bonus: It would be really nice if the prompt is colored yellow. You can take hint from the following line

image-sequencer/index.js

Line 70 in 88364de

console.warn(

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[gitmate]

GitMate.io thinks the contributors most likely able to help are @jywarren, and @GitMate[bot].

Possibly related issues are #129 (notify user that the CLI won't be synchronous (yet)), and #97 (Add module options to CLI).

[gitmate]

GitMate.io thinks the contributors most likely able to help are @jywarren, and @GitMate[bot].

Possibly related issues are #129 (notify user that the CLI won't be synchronous (yet)), and #97 (Add module options to CLI).