base-questions
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Plugin for base-methods that adds methods for prompting the user and storing the answers on a project-by-project basis.
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base-questions
Plugin for base-methods that adds methods for prompting the user and storing the answers on a project-by-project basis.
You might also be interested in data-store.
Table of Contents
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Install
Install with npm:
$ npm install --save base-questions
Usage
Try running the actual examples if it helps to see the following example in action.
var questions = require('base-questions');
var assemble = require('assemble-core');
var store = require('base-store');
var argv = require('base-argv');
var app = assemble();
app.use(store());
app.use(argv());
var argv = app.argv(process.argv.slice(2));
app.use(questions(app, argv.options));
app.task('ask', function (cb) {
app.ask(function (err, answers) {
if (err) return cb(err);
console.log(answers);
cb();
});
});
app.task('a', function (cb) {
console.log('task > a!');
cb();
});
app.task('b', function (cb) {
console.log('task > b!');
cb();
});
app.task('c', function (cb) {
console.log('task > c!');
cb();
});
app.task('choices', function (cb) {
app.choices('run', ['a', 'b', 'c'], function (err, answers) {
if (err) return cb(err);
if (!answers.run.length) return cb();
app.build(answers.run, cb);
});
});
app.build('choices', function(err) {
if (err) return console.log(err);
console.log('done!');
});
API
.confirm
Create a confirm
question.
Params
name
{String}: Question namemsg
{String}: Question messagequeue
{String|Array}: Name or array of question names.options
{Object|Function}: Question options or callback functioncallback
{Function}: callback function
Example
app.confirm('file', 'Want to generate a file?');
// equivalent to
app.question({
name: 'file',
message: 'Want to generate a file?',
type: 'confirm'
});
.choices
Create a "choices" question from an array.
Params
name
{String}: Question namemsg
{String}: Question messagechoices
{Array}: Choice itemsqueue
{String|Array}: Name or array of question names.options
{Object|Function}: Question options or callback functioncallback
{Function}: callback function
Example
app.choices('color', 'Favorite color?', ['blue', 'orange', 'green']);
// or
app.choices('color', {
message: 'Favorite color?',
choices: ['blue', 'orange', 'green']
});
// or
app.choices({
name: 'color',
message: 'Favorite color?',
choices: ['blue', 'orange', 'green']
});
.question
Add a question to be asked by the .ask
method.
Params
name
{String}: Question namemsg
{String}: Question messagevalue
{Object|String}: Question object, message (string), or options object.locale
{String}: Optionally pass the locale to use, otherwise the default locale is used.returns
{Object}: Returns thethis.questions
object, for chaining
Example
app.question('beverage', 'What is your favorite beverage?');
// or
app.question('beverage', {
type: 'input',
message: 'What is your favorite beverage?'
});
// or
app.question({
name: 'beverage'
type: 'input',
message: 'What is your favorite beverage?'
});
.ask
Ask one or more questions, with the given options
and callback.
Params
queue
{String|Array}: Name or array of question names.options
{Object|Function}: Question options or callback functioncallback
{Function}: callback function
Example
// ask all questions
app.ask(function(err, answers) {
console.log(answers);
});
// ask the specified questions
app.ask(['name', 'description'], function(err, answers) {
console.log(answers);
});
About
Related projects
- answer-store: Store answers to user prompts, based on locale and/or current working directory. | homepage
- common-questions: An object of questions commonly used by project generators or when initializing projects. Questions can… more | homepage
- question-store: Ask questions, persist the answers. Basic support for i18n and storing answers based on current… more | homepage
- to-choices: Easily create a normalized inquirer choices question. Supports all of the
choices
question types: checkbox… more | homepage
Contributing
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
Building docs
(This document was generated by verb-generate-readme (a verb generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in .verb.md.)
To generate the readme and API documentation with verb:
$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb
Running tests
Install dev dependencies:
$ npm install -d && npm test
Author
Jon Schlinkert
License
Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT license.
This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.1.31, on October 01, 2016.