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prompt-improved

0.1.10 • Public • Published

Prompts Improved

Node.js prompts like you always wanted. Style them to your heart's content using Chalk, an amazing CLI package for colors and text styling. Features include:

  • Default options
  • Boolean questions (simple y/n answers get converted to true/false)
  • Input validation (using regex's or functions)
  • Input filters (both before validation and after)
  • Required fields
  • Input attempt limits (think limiting password tries)
  • Ask single or multiple questions
  • When asking multiple questions, subsequent questions can be dependant on previous input. Allows for simple logic in prompt path.
  • Configurable prefixs and suffixes
  • Override defaults at runtime (overrideDefaults: {key: value})
  • Custom error messaging
  • Confirmation prompt for input of multiple questions
  • Input timeouts
  • Per-prompt configuration
  • Convient error handeling
  • (Coming Soon) Multiple choice questions

Examples

Just ask your user a question:

var Prompt = require('prompt-imporved');
 
var prompt = new Prompt({
    // Some options for all prompts
    prefix: '[?] ',
    prefixTheme: Prompt.chalk.green
});
 
prompt.ask('Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?', function(err, res) {
    if (err) return console.error(err); // err is null if no errors
    console.log('Response: ' + res);
});
 
// Outputs: [?] Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?: 

Options can be provided for all prompts or overridden on a per-prompt basis:

var Prompt = require('prompt-imporved');
 
var prompt = new Prompt({
    suffix: '? '
});
 
prompt.ask('How is your day going beautiful', function(err, res) {
    if (err) return console.error(err);
    console.log('Response: ' + res);
});
 
// Outputs: How is your day going beautiful?  

Asking multiple questions:

var Prompt = require('prompt-imporved');
var prompt = new Prompt();
prompt.ask([{
    question: 'Who\'s your daddy?',
    key: 'father',
}, {
    question: 'What is your Mothers name?',
}], function(err, res) {
    if (err) return console.error(err);
    console.log('Father\'s name: ' res.father);
    console.log('Mother\'s name: ' res['What is your Mothers name?']);
});

Full example will all options:

var Prompt = require('prompt-imporved');
 
// These are all the defaults
var prompt = new Prompt({
    prefix        : '',
    suffix        : ': ',
    defaultPrefix : ' (',
    defaultSuffix : ')',
    textTheme     : Prompt.chalk.bold,
    prefixTheme   : Prompt.chalk.white,
    suffixTheme   : Prompt.chalk.white,
    defaultTheme  : Prompt.chalk.white,
    inputError    : 'Error encountered, try again.',
    requiredError : 'Required! Try again.',
    invalidError  : 'Invalid input: ',
    attemptsError : 'Maximum attempts reached!',
    stdin         : process.stdin,
    stdout        : process.stdout,
    stderr        : process.stderr,
    timeout       : null
});
 
// Each question can have it's own options
prompt.ask([{
    question: 'A yes or no question',
    key: 'answer-key',
    attempts: 3,
    required: true,
    default: 'Y',
    boolean: true
}{
    question: 'Something where the first letter should be uppercase',
    key: 'answer-key1',
    before: function(val) {
        return val.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + val.slice(1);
    },
    depends: function(answers) {
        return !!answers['answer-key'];
    }
}], function(err, res) {
    if (err) return console.error(err);
    console.log('Response: ' + res);
});

Tests

Unit tests and test coverage are available:

// runs the tests and watches for file changes
$ grunt 

// Runs the coverage generator and opens your borwser to the results
$ grunt coverage

Contributions

Please contribute. Make pull requests against the develop branch.

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0.1.10

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