# 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

Repository: https://github.com/enquirer/enquirer
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/enquirer
Homepage: https://github.com/jonschlinkert
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: prompt, inquirer, cli, readline, terminal, confirm, prompts, yo, yeoman, command-line, hyper, zsh, iterm, tty, console, bash, shell, interactive, dialog, question
Last push: 2024-06-11T15:05:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3657, "days_push": 813, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7953, forks 295 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:10.208286+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, web-development
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: prompts, interactive-cli, terminal-ui, inquirer-alternative, readline, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- enquirer/enquirer (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:10.208286+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:32:38.080085+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/enquirer/enquirer (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:10.208286+00:00, sha 0f4b7cf70381)
  - homepage: https://github.com/jonschlinkert (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:03.157252+00:00, sha 2cf401147dff)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/enquirer (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:03.160202+00:00, sha 278a417b6aaf)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.