Conditional Skip

Conditional skip is another way of enabling a Task depending on the given context. But the main difference between enable and skip is skip will always render the given task. When the execution time comes, and it turns out that it should be skipped, it will render or mark it as skipped.

WARNING

Please pay attention to asynchronous operation while designing a context-enabled task list since it does not wait for any variable in the context.

Example

You can find the related examples here.

Usage

Skip call can either have or not have a message, therefore it is optional. Having a message combined with the selected renderer and its settings will yield a different output, where skip message could be directly shown.

Skip inside a Task

import { Listr } from 'listr2'

const tasks = new Listr(
  [
    {
      title: 'This task will execute.',
      task: (ctx, task): void => {
        task.skip('I am skipping this tasks for reasons.')
      }
    }
  ],
  { concurrent: false }
)

await tasks.run()

Skip conditionally defining the Task

import { Listr } from 'listr2'

const tasks = new Listr(
  [
    {
      title: 'This task will execute.',
      task: (ctx): void => {
        ctx.skip = true
      }
    },

    {
      title: 'This task will never execute.',
      skip: (ctx): boolean => ctx.skip,
      task: (): void => {}
    }
  ],
  { concurrent: false }
)

await tasks.run()

Renderer

DefaultRenderer

The default renderer has options where you can change how the skip messages are displayed.

Details

showSkipMessage?

optional showSkipMessage: boolean

Show skip messages or show the original title of the task.

• true will output the given skip message if there is any.
• false will keep the current task title intact. This will also disable collapseSkips.

Default Value

true

Defined in

packages/listr2/src/renderer/default/renderer.interface.ts:88

---

collapseSkips?

optional collapseSkips: boolean

Collapse skip messages into a single message and overwrite the task title.

• true will collapse skiped tasks.
• false will show the skip message as a data output under the current task title.

Default Value

true

Defined in

packages/listr2/src/renderer/default/renderer.interface.ts:97

---

suffixSkips?

optional suffixSkips: boolean

Suffix skip messages to clearly indicate the task has been skipped with in collapseSkips mode.

• true will add [SKIPPED] as a suffix.
• false will not add a suffix.

Default Value

false

Defined in

packages/listr2/src/renderer/default/renderer.interface.ts:106