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Prompts is opinionated with focus on simplicity. Complexity is something we as developers should fight every day.
To be honest I don't know that much about inquirer. I tried to read some of it's code for inspiration but I gave up.
- Smaller package: prompts' codebase is way smaller.
- 2 dependencies (only 1 external): Prompts only have 2 dependencies. Both small and both without any dependencies themself. Compare the dependencie graph for prompts with inquirer
- Testable: prompts provide a way for you as a developer to programmatically inject responses so you can write test your code.
- No legacy code: The code is simple and easy to read. This makes it less error prone, easier to maintain and easier for people to contribute to the project. Prompts uses new JavaScript features like
async/await
which makes the code super tidy - with the downside of only supporting newer version of node. - Unified experience: All prompts inherit the same base class which makes sure the experience is consistent. All prompts respect best practice when it comes to CLI tools (shortcuts etc.) and behave as you'll expect as a CLI-Ninja.
- Better documentation: I think the documentation easier to follow and better structured (with nice gifs, yay!)
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Smaller. Faster. Easier code base. Not much features. Opinionated.
Probably 🗡️ 💃
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One more reason about "Why not Inquirer".
– by Jon Schlinkert (@jonschlinkert), phenomenal community contributor.
Above statement is a bit old, probably, because is removed in the latest readme. In anyway, Inquirer is big, it worths to develop on (release for) newer nodejs versions and you should always try to bring some idea to minimum.
This leads me through the years and I have tons of small modules similar to some of more popular ones and they are totally functional and competitive.
If you one day need something like Inquirer, definitely replace it with @enquirer.
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Related Issues (20)
- Ensure types are exported HOT 3
- How to cancel these unnecessary logs HOT 5
- logic diagram
- Ast prompts
- Roadmap for a 3.0 HOT 5
- prompts captures Ctrl-W "cut word" shortcut as control character
- How to make autocomplete required or select searchable?
- Add mask option to Text Type
- Somewhat different published module than the one in the repo HOT 2
- Keypress events may not be triggered on Windows if validate callback contains async actions HOT 2
- Bun support HOT 11
- confirm element: pressing a function key throws an error
- correctly type return/resolved values instead of `any`
- Initial value not passed to validate function for `"number"` types
- When the type is multiSelect, options cannot be switched through the arrows on the keyboard HOT 1
- Better index selection when providing initial for autocomplete
- Ability to prefill input on autocomplete HOT 1
- Can't seem to create a prompt with a Discord ID
- autocompleteMultiselect errors on invalid option
- Content "scrolls up" when typing a new value after validation fails
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