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enquirer/enquirer

Stylish, intuitive and user-friendly prompts. Used by eslint, webpack, yarn, pm2, pnpm, RedwoodJS, FactorJS, salesforce, Cypress, Google Lighthouse, Generate, tencent cloudbase, lint-staged, gluegun, hygen, hardhat, AWS Amplify, GitHub Actions Toolkit, @airbnb/nimbus, and more! Please follow Enquirer's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/enquirer/enquirer · homepage · JavaScript · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

32/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3657
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 813
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

7953 stars · 295 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Enquirer is a JavaScript library for building stylish, user-friendly interactive command-line prompts. It is lightweight, promise-based, and extensible, and is used by popular tools like eslint, webpack, yarn, and pnpm.

Use cases

  • ask users questions in a cli tool
  • create interactive terminal prompts for nodejs
  • build confirm and input prompts for scaffolding tools
  • collect user input with validation in a command-line app
  • replace inquirer with a faster prompt library
  • create custom prompt types for a cli wizard

When to choose

  • you need polished interactive prompts in a Node.js CLI
  • you want a lightweight, fast alternative to Inquirer
  • you need customizable or custom prompt types with plugins

When to avoid

  • you are building a web UI rather than a terminal app
  • you need prompts outside the Node.js ecosystem
  • you only need simple yes/no input without styling

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

cli developer-tools developer-tools web-development cli cross-platform prompts interactive-cli terminal-ui inquirer-alternative readline command-line nodejs

3 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
enquirer/enquirermain32

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