Update dependency @inquirer/prompts to v8

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
@inquirer/prompts (source)	^5.0.0 -> ^8.0.0

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Release Notes

SBoudrias/Inquirer.js (@​inquirer/prompts)

v8.0.2

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• Fix Typescript not discovering types when moduleResolution is set to commonjs (you probably want to fix that in your project if it's still in your tsconfig)

v8.0.1

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v8.0.0

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Release Notes

🚨 Breaking Changes

This is a major release that modernizes the codebase for Node.js ≥ 20.

ESM Only - No More CommonJS Support

Impact: All packages are now ESM-only. CommonJS imports are no longer supported.

If you're on modern Node versions (≥ 20), this should be transparent and have no impact.

Node.js Version Requirement

Minimum Node.js version is now 20.x

Node.js versions below 20 are no longer supported. Please upgrade to Node.js 20 or later.

Node min versions: >=23.5.0 || ^22.13.0 || ^21.7.0 || ^20.12.0

Deprecated APIs Removed

The following deprecated APIs have been removed after being deprecated in previous releases:

list prompt alias removed (affects inquirer package only)

The list alias has been removed from the inquirer package. This only impacts users of the legacy inquirer package, not users of @inquirer/prompts or individual prompt packages.

// ❌ No longer available (inquirer package only)
import inquirer from 'inquirer';
const answer = await inquirer.prompt([
  { type: 'list', name: 'choice', message: 'Pick one:', choices: ['a', 'b'] }
]);

// ✅ Use 'select' instead
import inquirer from 'inquirer';
const answer = await inquirer.prompt([
  { type: 'select', name: 'choice', message: 'Pick one:', choices: ['a', 'b'] }
]);

helpMode theme property removed

// ❌ No longer available
const answer = await select({
  theme: { helpMode: 'never' }
});

// ✅ Use theme.style.keysHelpTip instead
const answer = await select({
  theme: {
    style: {
      keysHelpTip: () => undefined // or your custom styling function
    }
  }
});

This affects the following prompts:

• @inquirer/checkbox
• @inquirer/search
• @inquirer/select

instructions config property removed

// ❌ No longer available
const answer = await checkbox({
  instructions: 'Custom instructions'
});

// ✅ Use theme.style.keysHelpTip instead
const answer = await checkbox({
  theme: {
    style: {
      keysHelpTip: (text) => 'Custom instructions'
    }
  }
});

This affects the following prompts:

• @inquirer/checkbox
• @inquirer/search
• @inquirer/select

cancel() method removed

The cancel() method on prompt return custom Promise has been removed.

// ❌ No longer available
const answerPromise = input({ message: 'Name?' });
answerPromise.cancel();
const answer = await answerPromise;

// ✅ Use AbortSignal instead
const controller = new AbortController();
const answer = await input(
  { message: 'Name?' },
  { signal: controller.signal }
);
controller.abort();

Color Library Change: yoctocolors → Node.js styleText

Internal change: The project now uses Node.js built-in util.styleText() instead of the yoctocolors package for terminal colors. This makes Inquirer smaller and reduces risks of vulnerabilities coming from transitive dependencies.

v7.10.1

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• [Node 18 compat] Downgraded to mute-stream@​2 to maintain Node 18 compatibility.

v7.10.0

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• feat @inquirer/input: Now support simple RegExp validation with pattern/patternError.
• fix @inquirer/editor: Fix typo s/waitForUseInput/waitForUserInput
• Bump dependencies

v7.9.0

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• New design for the keys help tip. Themable/localizable with theme.style.keysHelpTip.
• Re-introduce option to match up/down actions with vim or emacs keybindings. Enable with theme.keybindings

v7.8.6

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• Reduce number of transitive dependencies

v7.8.5

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• Fix #​1834: (rawlist) Allows specifying numbers as explicit keys of option within the list.

v7.8.4

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• fix: Remove "easter-egg" vim/emacs bindings conflicting with the type-to-search feature.

v7.8.3

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• Fix Unix yes not properly being processed by the confirm prompt. (yes | node confirm-script.js)

v7.8.2

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• Make @types/node an optional peer dependency.

v7.8.1

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• Replace external-editor dependency with new @inquirer/external-editor. This remove the vulnerable tmp transitive dependency from the dependency tree.

v7.8.0

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• Search prompt: New instructions config to allow localizing the help tips.

v7.7.1

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• Fix #​1786 select prompt with indexMode: number theme option didn't properly calculate the items indexes if separators where present in between choices.

v7.7.0

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• Select prompt: When pressing a number key, we'll ignore separators in counting the index of the item to jump to.
• Checkbox prompt: When pressing a number key, we'll ignore separators in counting the index of the item to select.

v7.6.0

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-input prompt: New prefill option to control if the default value is editable inline or only after pressing tab.

v7.5.3

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• Fix #​1743: pagination logic of the select, checkbox and search prompts was fully rewritten to handle edge cases around rendering multi-line choices and pointer positioning.

v7.5.2

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• Chore: dependencies bump

v7.5.1

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v7.5.0

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• Feat(@​inquirer/select): Added an instructions option allowing to customize the messages in the help tips.
• Feat(@​inquirer/rawlist): Arrow keys will now cycle through the option, just like the @inquirer/select prompt. Also added a loop option to control the list loop behaviour when reaching the boundaries.

v7.4.1

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• Fix number prompt (typescript): If prompt is required, only number can be returned. (previously was nullable)
• README: Add new sponsor
• Chore: dependency updates

v7.4.0

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v7.3.3

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• Fix an issue where inquirer would throw if Node is ran with the new --frozen-intrinsics flag.

This fix is also released through patches of all specific prompts packages.

v7.3.2

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v7.3.1

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• Mark @types/node as an optional peer dependency across all packages.

v7.3.0

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v7.2.4

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v7.2.3

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v7.2.2

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v7.2.1

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v7.2.0: Inquirer v7.2.0

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Enhancement

• 039a55c #​923 Only import used lodash methods. (@​merceyz)

Bug Fix

• a1171d2 #​918 Fix @inquirer/confirm formatted output value. (@​rbardini)
• 1bf6413 Fix engines field for Node.js 8. (@​LitoMore)

v7.1.0

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v7.0.1

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v7.0.0

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• @types/node is now only a peerDependencies. This reduces the install size of inquirer dramatically for folks not using Typescript. It's unlikely to break your builds if you used TS already, if it does run npm install --dev @​types/node/yarn add --dev @​types/node.

v6.0.1

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v6.0.0

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No technical breaking changes; but we changed the style of the question prefix once the answer is provided. Once a question is answer, the prefix becomes a tick mark (previously it was the same ? as when the prompt is idle.)

This is theme-able, and so can be overwritten to with theme.prefix.

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