npm package discovery and stats viewer.

Discover Tips

  • General search

    [free text search, go nuts!]

  • Package details

    pkg:[package-name]

  • User packages

    @[username]

Sponsor

Optimize Toolset

I’ve always been into building performant and accessible sites, but lately I’ve been taking it extremely seriously. So much so that I’ve been building a tool to help me optimize and monitor the sites that I build to make sure that I’m making an attempt to offer the best experience to those who visit them. If you’re into performant, accessible and SEO friendly sites, you might like it too! You can check it out at Optimize Toolset.

About

Hi, 👋, I’m Ryan Hefner  and I built this site for me, and you! The goal of this site was to provide an easy way for me to check the stats on my npm packages, both for prioritizing issues and updates, and to give me a little kick in the pants to keep up on stuff.

As I was building it, I realized that I was actually using the tool to build the tool, and figured I might as well put this out there and hopefully others will find it to be a fast and useful way to search and browse npm packages as I have.

If you’re interested in other things I’m working on, follow me on Twitter or check out the open source projects I’ve been publishing on GitHub.

I am also working on a Twitter bot for this site to tweet the most popular, newest, random packages from npm. Please follow that account now and it will start sending out packages soon–ish.

Open Software & Tools

This site wouldn’t be possible without the immense generosity and tireless efforts from the people who make contributions to the world and share their work via open source initiatives. Thank you 🙏

© 2024 – Pkg Stats / Ryan Hefner

inquirer-autocomplete-prompt

v3.0.1

Published

Autocomplete prompt for inquirer

Downloads

4,723,519

Readme

inquirer-autocomplete-prompt

Autocomplete prompt for inquirer

build status

Installation

npm install inquirer-autocomplete-prompt

Usage

This prompt is anonymous, meaning you can register this prompt with the type name you please:

const inquirer = require('inquirer');
const inquirerPrompt = require('inquirer-autocomplete-prompt');

inquirer.registerPrompt('autocomplete', inquirerPrompt);
inquirer.prompt({
  type: 'autocomplete',
  ...
})

Change autocomplete to whatever you might prefer.

Options

Note: allowed options written inside square brackets ([]) are optional. Others are required.

type, name, message, source[, default, validate, filter, when, pageSize, prefix, suffix, askAnswered, loop, suggestOnly, searchText, emptyText]

See inquirer readme for meaning of all except source, suggestOnly, searchText and emptyText.

source will be called with previous answers object and the current user input each time the user types, it must return a promise.

source will be called once at at first before the user types anything with undefined as the value. If a new search is triggered by user input it maintains the correct order, meaning that if the first call completes after the second starts, the results of the first call are never displayed.

suggestOnly is default false. Setting it to true turns the input into a normal text input. Meaning that pressing enter selects whatever value you currently have. And pressing tab autocompletes the currently selected value in the list. This way you can accept manual input instead of forcing a selection from the list.

validate is called with the entered text when suggestOnly is set to true. When suggestOnly is false, validate is called with the choice object. In addition it is called with the answers object so far.

searchText Is the text shown when searching. Defaults: Searching...

emptyText Is the text shown if the search returns no results. Defaults: No results...

Example

const inquirer = require('inquirer');
const inquirerPrompt = require('inquirer-autocomplete-prompt');

inquirer.registerPrompt('autocomplete', inquirerPrompt);
inquirer
  .prompt([
    {
      type: 'autocomplete',
      name: 'from',
      message: 'Select a state to travel from',
      source: (answersSoFar, input) => myApi.searchStates(input),
    },
  ])
  .then((answers) => {
    // etc
  });

See also example.js for a working example.

I recommend using this package with fuzzy if you want fuzzy search. Again, see the example for a demonstration of this.

Autocomplete prompt

Credits

Martin Hansen

License

ISC