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Simple command line prompting utility
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Simple command line prompting utility.
$ npm install promptly
Prompts for a value, printing the message
and waiting for the input.
Returns a promise that resolves with the input.
Available options:
Name | Description | Type | Default |
---|---|---|---|
default | The default value to use if the user provided an empty input | string | undefined |
trim | Trims the user input | boolean | true |
validator | A validator or an array of validators | function/array | undefined |
retry | Retry if any of the validators fail | boolean | true |
silent | Do not print what the user types | boolean | false |
replace | Replace each character with the specified string when silent is true | string | '' |
input | Input stream to read from | Stream | process.stdin |
output | Output stream to write to | Stream | process.stdout |
timeout | Timeout in ms | number | 0 |
useDefaultOnTimeout | Return default value if timed out | boolean | false |
The same options are available to all functions but with different default values.
Ask for a name:
const promptly = require('promptly');
(async () => {
const name = await promptly.prompt('Name: ');
console.log(name);
})();
Ask for a name with a constraint (non-empty value and length > 2):
const promptly = require('promptly');
const validator = function (value) {
if (value.length < 2) {
throw new Error('Min length of 2');
}
return value;
};
(async () => {
const name = await promptly.prompt('Name: ', { validator });
// Since retry is true by default, promptly will keep asking for a name until it is valid
// Between each prompt, the error message from the validator will be printed
console.log('Name is:', name);
})();
Same as above but do not retry automatically:
const promptly = require('promptly');
const validator = function (value) {
if (value.length < 2) {
throw new Error('Min length of 2');
}
return value;
};
(async () => {
try {
const name = await promptly.prompt('Name: ', { validator, retry: false });
console.log('Name is:', name);
} catch (err) {
console.error('Invalid name:')
console.error(`- ${err.message}`);
}
})();
Ask for a name with timeout:
const promptly = require('promptly');
(async () => {
const name = await promptly.prompt('Name: ', { timeout: 3000 });
console.log(name);
})();
It throws an Error("timed out")
if timeout is reached and no default value is provided
The validators have two purposes: to check and transform input. They can be asynchronous or synchronous
const validator = (value) => {
// Validation example, throwing an error when invalid
if (value.length !== 2) {
throw new Error('Length must be 2');
}
// Parse the value, modifying it
return value.replace('aa', 'bb');
}
const asyncValidator = async (value) => {
await myfunc();
return value;
}
Ask the user for confirmation, printing the message
and waiting for the input.
Returns a promise that resolves with the answer.
Truthy values are: y
, yes
and 1
. Falsy values are n
, no
, and 0
.
Comparison is made in a case insensitive way.
The options are the same as prompt, except that trim
defaults to false
.
Ask to confirm something important:
const promptly = require('promptly');
(async () => {
const answer = await promptly.confirm('Are you really sure? ');
console.log('Answer:', answer);
})();
Ask the user to choose between multiple choices
(array of choices), printing the message
and waiting for the input.
Returns a promise that resolves with the choice.
The options are the same as prompt, except that trim
defaults to false
.
Ask to choose between:
const promptly = require('promptly');
(async () => {
const choice = await promptly.choose('Do you want an apple or an orange? ', ['apple', 'orange']);
console.log('Choice:', choice);
})();
Prompts for a password, printing the message
and waiting for the input.
Returns a promise that resolves with the password.
The options are the same as prompt, except that trim
and silent
default to false
and default
is an empty string (to allow empty passwords).
Ask for a password:
const promptly = require('promptly');
(async () => {
const password = await promptly.password('Type a password: ');
console.log('Password:', password);
})();
Ask for a password but mask the input with *
:
const promptly = require('promptly');
(async () => {
const password = await promptly.password('Type a password: ', { replace: '*' });
console.log('Password:', password);
})();
$ npm test
$ npm test -- --watch
during development
Released under the MIT License.
FAQs
Simple command line prompting utility
The npm package promptly receives a total of 1,181,299 weekly downloads. As such, promptly popularity was classified as popular.
We found that promptly demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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