Inquirer.js

• Fix a memory leak in the core. A warning would appear once the same prompt is repeated > 10 times.

The fix is released in all other packages through a patch version.

• Improve rendering performance (should reduce appearance of screen flickering)

The improvement is released in all other packages through a patch version.

• Fix issue where hooks cleanup would wait until all timeouts resolve before triggering. Now hooks cleanup functions are run immediately when the user press ctrl+c or send other exit signals.

• Fix support for decimal numbers

• Enforce useEffect cleanup functions should only run once.

• Add support for short property on rawlist choices.

All custom errors thrown from inquirer now includes a name attribute reflecting the error class. When checking if an error comes from inquirer AND using a bundler (like tsup, rollup, etc), instanceof might not work as you expect it to. So instead, it is recommend to follow this example:

- if (error instanceof ExitPromptError) {
+ if (error.name === 'ExitPromptError') {

• Fix broken backward compatibility issues with v9. Choice objects without value should default to use name as the value. Note: Please don't rely on this weird behaviour, but we fixed it since it was an unintended breaking change.

Fix issue where vim/emacs keybindings would conflict with the search term input when typing letters used to navigate through the list.

Fix issue where typing would disallow the following

search({
    ...,
    source: async (term: string = '') => {
        ...
    },
});

• Now includes a search prompt. import { search } from @inquirer/prompts

• Adds the new { type: 'search' } prompt.

First release on a brand new search prompt! See documentation

• Fix typing of the validate function. It can only contain choices (no separator)

• Add theme option to customize the description display

• Fixes usePagination assuming the list is never empty

• Fix: Re-added missing short on select and checkbox prompt.
• Fix: Remove type requiring a close method on prompt class instances (it wasn't required.)

• Added optional short property to the choices. When defined, we'll use short instead of name when rendering the selection after submitting the prompt.

• Added optional short property to the choices. When defined, we'll use short instead of name when rendering the selection after submitting the prompt. This is added to maintain compatibility with the inquirer API.

• Re-implemented with Typescript.
• Adding CJS support (now inquirer is publishes a dual-build CJS/ESM.)
• All core prompts are now coming from @inquirer/prompt.
• Custom prompts now should be implemented with @inquirer/core. Custom prompts built on [email protected] will keep working, but should plan a migration.
• inquirer.ui.BottomBar is deleted.

My expectation is that this release should be a drop-in replacement for people using inquirer.prompt() and built-ins 🤞🏻. Please open an issue on Github if you run into issues migrating; it's a large rewrite and there might be a few sharp edges to cut! Hope you'll like this new release.