We can replace inquirer with prompts

[saideepesh000]

Version

4.5.9

Reproduction link

facebook/create-react-app#10083

Environment info

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Steps to reproduce

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What is expected?

This may increase the speed and decrease the size of cli.

What is actually happening?

Actually, inquirer is larger in size than prompts.

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Context: recently create-react-app replaced inquirer with prompts which reduced sized by 80%, we can do that to vue-cli too.
facebook/create-react-app#10083

[saideepesh000]

I can help you with this.

[haoqunjiang]

Thanks for raising this issue. But I'm wondering how much difference is there between the prompts object structure of prompts and that of inquirer.js? The prompts object is used in third-party Vue CLI plugins as well as in the core plugins.
So if we have to switch the implementation, we needed a detailed guide for plugin authors to migrate too.

[saideepesh000]

Hey @sodatea, Thanks for replying to me, Actually I was just curious to know about this migration(like haven't you thought about using prompts instead of the inquirer), and if so, I thought I would help in this process. And could you give more details on how to prepare a guide for such things?

[haoqunjiang]

Hi @saideepesh000, sorry for forgetting to reply earlier.
The guide should at least include mappings from the inquirer.js question objects to the prompts objects. And the example in the development guide needs to be updated too: https://cli.vuejs.org/dev-guide/plugin-dev.html#prompts