@inquirer/checkbox

• Choices can now be an array of string.
• Includes @inquirer/core@9.1.0 adding support for { signal: AbortSignal } in the context options to programatically cancel a prompt.

• Help tip behaviors are now customizable through theme options.

• Fix bug where multiple prompts were allowed to run at the same time (and thus leak state)
• Fix bug where a failed prompt state could leak to subsequent runs of other prompts

• Add support for short property on rawlist choices.

• Performance improvements
• Includes updates in @inquirer/core@2.2.0

• When setting a state (useState), it'll only re-renders if the value changed.
• When setting multiple states at once, we'll only trigger one re-renders if it happens inside a hook callback (previously each state change triggered one re-render.)

If you're setting multiple state in a callback from an async function (like setTimeout or a network call), those will not be merged in a single re-renders. For those case, you're better using a state object holding all values to reduce the amount of re-renders. Open to discuss this in #1251

• Allow customizing renderSelectedChoices with theme.

• New getFullOutput() utility that'll return a raw string of everything that was written to the output stream
• Ignore cursor hide/show ANSI code from raw output (keeping those made it harder to test raw output where those cleaning code would always be the only result due to how inquirer clean state.)

useEffect now pass the active Readline instance to the effect callback. e.g useEffect((readline) => ...

Major refactor of the core to allow multiple features:

1. Prompt function now return cancelable promise (e.g input(...).cancel())
2. Reduced amount of writes to the readline (should now be ~1 per render cycle)
3. Make sure to restore the cursor on force exit.

Now includes a stricter answer parser. Prior to this change, the prompt would default to Yes on almost any input.

• Answer name with . are now expand in the answer object. e.g. name.sub would generate an answer object formatted as {name: {sub: 'answer'}}.
• expand prompt default value if not specified is now help.
• Drop support for node 0.10 and 0.12

Unpublished due to backward compatibility issue

• Checkbox prompt now support a and i keys to trigger select all and invert selection.
• editor prompt is now non blocking.
• errors thrown in filter functions are now surfaced to the user.

• Add a new editor prompt to launch an editor allowing to easily enter multiline content - or edit file content.

• Fix expand prompt to correctly use the value key as the prompt answer.
• Fix documentation saying the expand prompt support the filter key.

@sboudrias/package@1.0.2

Release tooling package. No source changes.

• Make @types/node an optional peer dependency.

Fixes

• Fix bug where inquirer would overwrite properties on the options passed in. Now we're making sure to not mutate your originals objects.
• On the checkbox prompt, we're now only hiding the help message once the user click the space key instead of any keys.
• Drop readline2 in favor of Node core version. This might fix some edge cases some users on windows encountered.

New package - first release!

Drop-in replacement for @inquirer/prompts with localized text.

First release of our brand new number prompt.

• Fork of figures to get new features and CJS support. We plan on maintaining it ourselves for now.

Say hello to promises!

The whole inquirer API is now based on promises!

• The base API interface is now inquirer.prompt(questions).then(). There's no more callback function.
• Any async question functions is taking a promise as return value instead of requiring this.async().

Breaking changes

• filter is now always run before validate #122
• inquirer.prompt doesn't take a callback argument anymore

Bug fixes

• Fixed list not displayed disabled options correctly #321

And various other minor fixes and cleanup to the code base.