logger: Prompting the user

[BergerAPI]

To reduce the use of multiple packages, one could implement a prompt system. It should be similar to this package.

I'm suggesting following functions:

• confirm(text: string) (Simple yes/no prompt)
• prompt(text: string) (Asking a question)
• select(text: string, choices: string[]) (Selecting a single value from a list of values)
• multi(text: string, choices: string[]) (Selecting multiple values from a list of values)

Examples can be found on the mentioned NPM-Package.

[paperdave]

This would be interesting.

Though for this exact proposal I would like multi() to be a part of select(), as like an object that has options.

An alternative API for prompting for things could be a function similar to how inquirer and prompts, where you pass an object with a type value with one of the prompt types. This is what I was initially thinking of copying except on a single question per function call.

The implementation of these should be done using the LogWidget API, and maybe by implementing a function like onKeyPress, so stdin handling could be abstracted away for implementing the prompts. This also means all the prompt functions would be async.

[paperdave]

note that we cannot use prompts directly as it will have issues when you call log functions while the prompt is visible. this is a small edge case that my library handles for spinners and other widgets, so by simply extending LogWidget, this behavior is automatically available.

[paperdave]

[see the above commit, or packages/paperdave-logger/src/stdin.ts]

here's an interesting function i wrote, only works on bun as of now. it reads one character from stdin and returns immediatly. no enter button needed. might be interesting if log widgets could specify like a this.getKey() or some api where the widget system can handle giving a response.