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A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
npm install @inquirer/selectTypescript
Module System
Min. Node Version
Node Version
NPM Version
98.1
Supply Chain
98.2
Quality
96.4
Maintenance
100
Vulnerability
99.6
License
@inquirer/prompts@7.3.3
Updated on Mar 08, 2025
@inquirer/core@10.1.8
Updated on Mar 08, 2025
inquirer@12.4.3
Updated on Mar 08, 2025
inquirer@12.4.1
Updated on Feb 04, 2025
@inquirer/prompts@7.3.1
Updated on Feb 02, 2025
inquirer@12.4.0
Updated on Feb 04, 2025
TypeScript (91.45%)
JavaScript (8.55%)
Verify real, reachable, and deliverable emails with instant MX records, SMTP checks, and disposable email detection.
Total Downloads
97,787,309
Last Day
918,802
Last Week
4,914,621
Last Month
20,169,736
Last Year
92,124,784
MIT License
20,623 Stars
1,705 Commits
1,313 Forks
148 Watchers
10 Branches
209 Contributors
Updated on Mar 14, 2025
Minified
Minified + Gzipped
Latest Version
4.0.10
Package Id
@inquirer/select@4.0.10
Unpacked Size
22.04 kB
Size
5.89 kB
File Count
9
NPM Version
lerna/8.2.1/node@v22.13.0+arm64 (darwin)
Node Version
22.13.0
Published on
Mar 08, 2025
Cumulative downloads
Total Downloads
1
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A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
Give it a try in your own terminal!
1npx @inquirer/demo@latest
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[!NOTE] Inquirer recently underwent a rewrite from the ground up to reduce the package size and improve performance. The previous version of the package is still maintained (though not actively developed), and offered hundreds of community contributed prompts that might not have been migrated to the latest API. If this is what you're looking for, the previous package is over here.
1import { input } from '@inquirer/prompts'; 2 3const answer = await input({ message: 'Enter your name' });
1import { input } from '@inquirer/prompts';
See documentation for usage example and options documentation.
1import { select } from '@inquirer/prompts';
See documentation for usage example and options documentation.
1import { checkbox } from '@inquirer/prompts';
See documentation for usage example and options documentation.
1import { confirm } from '@inquirer/prompts';
See documentation for usage example and options documentation.
1import { search } from '@inquirer/prompts';
See documentation for usage example and options documentation.
1import { password } from '@inquirer/prompts';
See documentation for usage example and options documentation.
1import { expand } from '@inquirer/prompts';
See documentation for usage example and options documentation.
Launches an instance of the users preferred editor on a temporary file. Once the user exits their editor, the content of the temporary file is read as the answer. The editor used is determined by reading the $VISUAL or $EDITOR environment variables. If neither of those are present, the OS default is used (notepad on Windows, vim on Mac or Linux.)
1import { editor } from '@inquirer/prompts';
See documentation for usage example and options documentation.
Very similar to the input prompt, but with built-in number validation configuration option.
1import { number } from '@inquirer/prompts';
See documentation for usage example and options documentation.
1import { rawlist } from '@inquirer/prompts';
See documentation for usage example and options documentation.
The API documentation is over here, and our testing utilities here.
All inquirer prompts are a function taking 2 arguments. The first argument is the prompt configuration (unique to each prompt). The second is providing contextual or runtime configuration.
The context options are:
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| input | NodeJS.ReadableStream | no | The stdin stream (defaults to process.stdin) |
| output | NodeJS.WritableStream | no | The stdout stream (defaults to process.stdout) |
| clearPromptOnDone | boolean | no | If true, we'll clear the screen after the prompt is answered |
| signal | AbortSignal | no | An AbortSignal to cancel prompts asynchronously |
Example:
1import { confirm } from '@inquirer/prompts'; 2 3const allowEmail = await confirm( 4 { message: 'Do you allow us to send you email?' }, 5 { 6 output: new Stream.Writable({ 7 write(chunk, _encoding, next) { 8 // Do something 9 next(); 10 }, 11 }), 12 clearPromptOnDone: true, 13 }, 14);
This can preferably be done with either an AbortController or AbortSignal.
1// Example 1: using built-in AbortSignal utilities 2import { confirm } from '@inquirer/prompts'; 3 4const answer = await confirm({ ... }, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5000) });
1// Example 1: implementing custom cancellation logic 2import { confirm } from '@inquirer/prompts'; 3 4const controller = new AbortController(); 5setTimeout(() => { 6 controller.abort(); // This will reject the promise 7}, 5000); 8 9const answer = await confirm({ ... }, { signal: controller.signal });
Alternatively, all prompt functions are returning a cancelable promise. This special promise type has a cancel method that'll cancel and cleanup the prompt.
On calling cancel, the answer promise will become rejected.
1import { confirm } from '@inquirer/prompts'; 2 3const promise = confirm(...); // Warning: for this pattern to work, `await` cannot be used. 4 5promise.cancel();
ctrl+c gracefullyWhen a user press ctrl+c to exit a prompt, Inquirer rejects the prompt promise. This is the expected behavior in order to allow your program to teardown/cleanup its environment. When using async/await, rejected promises throw their error. When unhandled, those errors print their stack trace in your user's terminal.
ExitPromptError: User force closed the prompt with 0 null
at file://example/packages/core/dist/esm/lib/create-prompt.js:55:20
at Emitter.emit (file://example/node_modules/signal-exit/dist/mjs/index.js:67:19)
at #processEmit (file://example/node_modules/signal-exit/dist/mjs/index.js:236:27)
at #process.emit (file://example/node_modules/signal-exit/dist/mjs/index.js:187:37)
at process.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:130:17)
This isn't a great UX, which is why we highly recommend you to handle those errors gracefully.
First option is to wrap your scripts in try/catch; like we do in our demo program. Or handle the error in your CLI framework mechanism; for example Clipanion catch method.
Lastly, you could handle the error globally with an event listener and silence it.
1process.on('uncaughtException', (error) => { 2 if (error instanceof Error && error.name === 'ExitPromptError') { 3 console.log('👋 until next time!'); 4 } else { 5 // Rethrow unknown errors 6 throw error; 7 } 8});
When asking many questions, you might not want to keep one variable per answer everywhere. In which case, you can put the answer inside an object.
1import { input, confirm } from '@inquirer/prompts'; 2 3const answers = { 4 firstName: await input({ message: "What's your first name?" }), 5 allowEmail: await confirm({ message: 'Do you allow us to send you email?' }), 6}; 7 8console.log(answers.firstName);
Maybe some questions depend on some other question's answer.
1import { input, confirm } from '@inquirer/prompts'; 2 3const allowEmail = await confirm({ message: 'Do you allow us to send you email?' }); 4 5let email; 6if (allowEmail) { 7 email = await input({ message: 'What is your email address' }); 8}
1import { input } from '@inquirer/prompts'; 2 3const answer = await input( 4 { message: 'Enter a value (timing out in 5 seconds)' }, 5 { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5000) }, 6).catch((error) => { 7 if (error.name === 'AbortPromptError') { 8 return 'Default value'; 9 } 10 11 throw error; 12});
By default scripts ran from tools like husky/lint-staged might not run inside an interactive shell. In non-interactive shell, Inquirer cannot run, and users cannot send keypress events to the process.
For it to work, you must make sure you start a tty (or "interactive" input stream.)
If those scripts are set within your package.json, you can define the stream like so:
1 "precommit": "my-script < /dev/tty"
Or if in a shell script file, you'll do it like so: (on Windows that's likely your only option)
1#!/bin/sh 2exec < /dev/tty 3 4node my-script.js
When using inquirer prompts with nodemon, you need to pass the --no-stdin flag for everything to work as expected.
1npx nodemon ./packages/demo/demos/password.mjs --no-stdin
Note that for most of you, you'll be able to use the new watch-mode built-in Node. This mode works out of the box with inquirer.
1# One of depending on your need 2node --watch script.js 3node --watch-path=packages/ packages/demo/
Maybe some question configuration require to await a value.
1import { confirm } from '@inquirer/prompts'; 2 3const answer = await confirm({ message: await getMessage() });
If you created a cool prompt, send us a PR adding it to the list below!
Interactive List Prompt
Select a choice either with arrow keys + Enter or by pressing a key associated with a choice.
? Choose an option:
> Run command (D)
Quit (Q)
Action Select Prompt
Choose an item from a list and choose an action to take by pressing a key.
? Choose a file Open <O> Edit <E> Delete <X>
❯ image.png
audio.mp3
code.py
Table Multiple Prompt
Select multiple answer from a table display.
1Choose between choices? (Press <space> to select, <Up and Down> to move rows, 2<Left and Right> to move columns) 3 4┌──────────┬───────┬───────┐ 5│ 1-2 of 2 │ Yes? │ No? | 6├──────────┼───────┼───────┤ 7│ Choice 1 │ [ ◯ ] │ ◯ | 8├──────────┼───────┼───────┤ 9│ Choice 2 │ ◯ │ ◯ | 10└──────────┴───────┴───────┘ 11
Toggle Prompt
Confirm with a toggle. Select a choice with arrow keys + Enter.
? Do you want to continue? no / yes
Sortable Checkbox Prompt
The same as built-in checkbox prompt, but also allowing to reorder choices using ctrl+up/down.
? Which PRs and in what order would you like to merge? (Press <space> to select, <a> to toggle all, <i> to invert selection, <ctrl+up> to move item up, <ctrl+down> to move item down, and <enter> to proceed)
❯ ◯ PR 1
◯ PR 2
◯ PR 3
An inquirer select that supports multiple selections and filtering/searching.
? Choose your OS, IDE, PL, etc. (Press <tab> to select/deselect, <backspace> to remove selected
option, <enter> to select option)
>> vue
>[ ] vue
[ ] vuejs
[ ] fuelphp
[ ] venv
[ ] vercel
(Use arrow keys to reveal more options)
File Selector Prompt
A file selector, you can navigate freely between directories, choose what type of files you want to allow and it is fully customizable.
1? Select a file: 2/main/path/ 3├── folder1/ 4├── folder2/ 5├── folder3/ 6├── file1.txt 7├── file2.pdf 8└── file3.jpg (not allowed) 9━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10Use ↑↓ to navigate through the list 11Press <esc> to navigate to the parent directory 12Press <enter> to select a file or navigate to a directory
Copyright (c) 2023 Simon Boudrias (twitter: @vaxilart)
Licensed under the MIT license.
No vulnerabilities found.
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30 commit(s) and 11 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
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SAST tool detected but not run on all commits
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2 existing vulnerabilities detected
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Found 3/17 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
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project is not fuzzed
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Last Scanned on 2025-03-10
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