It looks as though ora swallows any stdout happening just before the .stop().

Example

const ora = require('ora');

const spinner = ora({
  text: 'spinning...\n',
  color: 'yellow'
});

spinner.start();

setTimeout(() => {
  console.log('STOP');
  spinner.stop();
}, 1000);

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