🏃 prompt-run

Run commands based on user input, dynamically generating environment variables, arguments, flags

Getting started

yarn add -D prompt-run

prompt-run [options] [command]

API

Note: Check the Inquirer documentation for full details on how to create question objects.

CLI

  Usage
    $ prompt-run [options] [command]

  Options
    --config, -c <filename>  Path to questions config file
    --prefix, -p <prefix>    Prompt scripts with the provided prefix
    --dry-run                No execution after generating the command
    --silent, -s             Disable output of generated command

Module

const promptRun = require('prompt-run')
 
promptRun({
  command: 'yarn',
  options: {},
  questions: {
    env: [],
    args: [],
  },
}).then((childProcess) => {})

Command

The base used to run along the generated command.

Default: yarn (or npm run if your project doesn't contain a yarn.lock file)

It can be anything which is not needed to prompt.

Options

Name	Type	Default	Description
config	string	"prompt-run.js"	Path to questions config file
prefix	string	undefined	Prompt existing scripts starting with the given prefix
dryRun	boolean	false	No execution after generating the command
silent	boolean	false	Disable output of the generated command

Questions

Questions config file

module.exports = () => ({
  env: [
    // Question objects
  ],
  args: [
    // Question objects
  ],
})

The config is divided into:

• env: Node Environment variables to prompt
• args: Arguments/flags prompted. Anything coming after the base command.

Questions object

Check the Inquirer documentation for full details on how to create question objects.

Examples

1. CLI

With a defined config of questions

questions.js

module.exports = () => ({
  env: [
    {
      type: 'list',
      name: 'NODE_ENV',
      choices: ['production', 'development'],
    },
    {
      name: 'SECRET_KEY',
    },
  ],
  args: [
    {
      type: 'confirm',
      name: '--watch',
      default: false,
    },
    {
      name: '--log-level',
      type: 'list',
      choices: ['error', 'warning'],
    },
  ],
})

Run

prompt-run -c questions.js yarn start

Example output / command executed

$ NODE_ENV=development SECRET_KEY=1234 yarn start --watch --log-level warning

2. Scripts

As a node module in scripts

dependency-info.js

const promptRun = require('prompt-run')
const packageJson = require('./package.json')
 
const dependencies = Object.keys(packageJson.dependencies)
const fields = ['description', 'readme', 'version', 'dependencies']
 
promptRun({
  command: 'yarn info',
  questions: {
    args: [
      {
        type: 'list',
        name: 'dependency',
        message: 'Select a dependency',
        choices: dependencies,
      },
      {
        type: 'list',
        name: 'field',
        message: 'Select a field to print',
        choices: fields,
      },
    ],
  },
}).then((childProcess) => {
  childProcess.on('close', () => {
    console.log('\nFinished with the child process!')
  })
})

Run

node dependency-info.js

3. Prefix shortcut

Prompt existing scripts starting with a given prefix

package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "start:dev": "...",
    "start:prod": "...",
    "start:docker": "..."
  }
}

Run

prompt-run -p start

Development

yarn
yarn link
...
yarn test --coverage
yarn lint
yarn commit
yarn unlink

Publish / release

Github Action auto-publishing for each commit pushed to master.

Todo list

• Bugs:
  • Inquirer errors do not appear directly in CLI mode
• Configs should consist in promptRun Object argument
• feature: $ prompt-run -env NODE_ENV yarn start shortcut for question

License

Licensed under the MIT License, Copyright © 2019-present Antoine Nozeret.

See LICENSE for more information.