Inquirer.js
A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces. (by SBoudrias)
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Elegant terminal spinner (by sindresorhus)
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| Inquirer.js | ora | |
|---|---|---|
| 37 | 7 | |
| 19,370 | 8,896 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.2 | 5.4 | |
| 3 days ago | 4 months ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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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Let’s 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.
ora
Posts with mentions or reviews of ora.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-30.
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Interactive Node JS command line
ora
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Prerendering in Angular - Part III
The builder uses ora library for logging out on console
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spinoff - an easy library for displaying spinners in the terminal
I could put it in a fancy terminal window, kind of like ora does it - https://github.com/sindresorhus/ora
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Spinach, a practical terminal spinner library
I was working on a project when I realized there wasn't any spinner library offering an experience close to Ora (js) so I made my own!
- Ora — Elegant terminal spinner
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A Guide to CLIs with Node.js
Asynchronous and time consuming operations are very common in CLIs. We don't want to leave the user thinking his computer has hung up. We'll use the ora package for loaders. Begin by installing ora -
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Inquirer.js and ora you can also consider the following projects:
yargs - yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist.
shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs
chalk - 🖍 Terminal string styling done right
multispinner - Multiple, simultaneous, individually controllable spinners for concurrent tasks in Node.js CLI programs
progress - Flexible ascii progress bar for nodejs
blessed - A high-level terminal interface library for node.js.
string-width - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it