Inquirer.js
A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces. (by SBoudrias)
Ink
π React for interactive command-line apps (by vadimdemedes)
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Inquirer.js
Posts with mentions or reviews of Inquirer.js.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-06.
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Mastering Node.js CLI: Best Practices and Tips
Inquirer.js is a handy tool for adding interactive prompts to your CLI.
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Painless CLI integration testing
There is a CLI application based on Inquirer. Potentially, it could be another CLI library, say something from the following list. Our goal is to provide integration tests. But before that, let's look at the related terminology.
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Interactive Node JS command line
inquirer
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Custom File Generator Tutorial
If you boil plop down to its core, it is basically glue code between inquirer prompts and handlebar templates.
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Command Line Application: Bank Loan Tracker [Node]
This is a new tutorial on how to create a command line interface application, and our application today is a Mortgage Calculator. I used in this program packages such as 1- inquirer for interactive questions and answers: https://www.npmjs.com/package/inquirer 2- Sqlite3 DBMS 3- Chalk for colorful output in the terminal: https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk
- Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
- Say Allo' to the new Inquirer
- Say Allo' to the New Inquirer (Node.js CLI)
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Letβs create a Node CLI for generating files from templates!
We can easily achieve that with the inquirer package. This package allows you to ask different types of questions, such as input questions (open-text questions), confirmation questions (Yes/No), etc.
Ink
Posts with mentions or reviews of Ink.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-12.
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I created a simple CLI tool that helps you code FAST!
I've always wanted to build a CLI tool, and when I realized that you can build one using React with Ink, I converted my Python script into a CLI tool.
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Delete git branches in batches
β οΈ Git for Windows Terminal is currently not supported, and the tool is limited to ink. We will look for alternatives later. Please use CMD, Vscode terminal's Git... terminal
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Setup Simple Web UI for Node.js App in Seconds
There is a good solution for some of those cases - ink. With ink, I can implement text-based UI with knowledge of React, which is neat but there are still some caveats for my usages:
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Building Reactive CLIs with Ink - React CLI library
Looks cool, right? Building a similar UI in the terminal without any library would be quite hard, though, thanks to Ink it's almost as easy as building any frontend UI with React.
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Terminal-like output library for js?
ink?
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Synchronous File Reading and Writing in Node.js
I'm writing a CLI with ink. Writing async code is important as to not block the rendering and respond to user input. I have a few loading animations that update every 100ms. Synchronous operations can make the animation hang for >500ms, making the animation choppy.
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Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) β Email API for Developers Using React
You get the comfort of using react components instead of fighting with HTML tables to make your emails look nice. I think it's awesome! It's analog to what ink[0] does with CLI outputs. Sure, you could write fancy CLI outputs in bash, but ink takes the pain out of it and makes it easy.
[0] https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
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Is Node.js a good way to implement a CLI app with persistence?
Due to Node's asynchronous behavior, it makes Node great for long-running processes that make a lot of HTTP requests, database calls, and other async ops, like a web server or a REST API. However, if I am making a CLI tool for pretty much personal use only, with very minimal async operations, then blocking the event loop with a synchronous function that will resolve almost immediately will make no difference perceivable to a human brain or have any speed benefits that someone can actually observe (think `fs.readFileSync` or `require('dotenv') of 10 line config file, or a quick embedded db (sqlite) query with only ~100 records. I'm wondering what the best way to implement the database part of the app synchronous. I can read/write to JSON files but it would be tricky because the data is relational, and some complex joins and other data wrangling operations are required (complex to perform in JS but are easy to implement in a SQL statement). It's not important what the operations are, that's not the point of this post. This is mostly a personal project of interest: making this CLI tool completely avoiding any async operations/using no promises. I would like to use node tho, as I said this is just out of interest and I also want to experiment with several CLI libraries such as Ink or Cliffy.
- Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
- Make interactive command-line apps with React
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Inquirer.js and Ink you can also consider the following projects:
yargs - yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist.
Commander.js - node.js command-line interfaces made easy
vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs
oclif - CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce.
chalk - π Terminal string styling done right
blessed - A high-level terminal interface library for node.js.
shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
nestjs-commander - A module for using NestJS to build up CLI applications
progress - Flexible ascii progress bar for nodejs
tui-rs - Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust
meow - π CLI app helper
PyLaTeX - A Python library for creating LaTeX files