bitburner-src/utils/helpers/createProgressBarText.ts

interface IProgressBarConfiguration {
    /**
     * Current progress, taken as a decimal (i.e. '0.6' to represent '60%')
     */
    progress?: number;

    /**
     * Total number of ticks in progress bar. Preferably a factor of 100.
     */
    totalTicks?: number;
}

interface IProgressBarConfigurationMaterialized extends IProgressBarConfiguration {
    progress: number;
    totalTicks: number;
}

/**
 * Creates a graphical "progress bar"
 * e.g.:  [||||---------------]
 * @param params The configuration parameters for the progress bar
 */
export function createProgressBarText(params: IProgressBarConfiguration) {
    // Default values
    const defaultParams: IProgressBarConfigurationMaterialized = {
        progress: 0,
        totalTicks: 20,
    };

    // tslint:disable-next-line:prefer-object-spread
    const derivedParams: IProgressBarConfigurationMaterialized = Object.assign({}, params, defaultParams);

    const bars: number = Math.floor(derivedParams.progress / (1 / derivedParams.totalTicks));
    const dashes: number = derivedParams.totalTicks - bars;

    // String.prototype.repeat isn't completley supported, but good enough for our purposes
    return `[${"|".repeat(bars + 1)}${"-".repeat(dashes + 1)}]`;
}