replace `enquirer+inquirer` with `@clack/prompts+launch-editor` by beeequeue · Pull Request #1879 · changesets/changesets · GitHub

closes #1814
closes #1043
closes #1861
closes #1814
part of #1869

replaces enquirer with the slightly smaller and more modern @clack/prompts, whose API is also a lot nicer in my opinion

it also replaces @inquirer/external-editor with launch-editor, which is quite a lot smaller, works better in my experience, and is more flexible allowing us to remove the hack in packages/cli/src/commands/add/index.ts

should we remove the versions from the labels when selecting packages? it would be nice to minimize each item's size since the list(s) can get pretty big

things to do in follow-up PRs

replace remaining console logs with throwing errors or similar patterns #X
remove noop log silencer functions everywhere since logs are always silenced now #X
migrate from mri to cleye or gunshi #X
- implement dynamic text for intro step based on command being run

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cancelling at any point: https://asciinema.org/a/HxMUViS932Pwi5Oj

changeset add: https://asciinema.org/a/1JFbvyuuVbbfOjuy

changeset init with existing config:

changeset version with pre-release:

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interactive (passkey): https://asciinema.org/a/yF9PEOwG2sROT5Zz

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paths are blue
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It would be great to include some before/after screenshots in the PR summary + call out behavior differences (if there are any)

This will kinda also close #1043 and #1814

It would be great to include some before/after screenshots in the PR summary + call out behavior differences (if there are any)

yep, will add more info when theres more progress but for now i have one recording and will add more later

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✅ Project coverage is 81.09%. Comparing base (c7294d6) to head (7c81b29).

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Do we still need to handle v1 configs in v3 or should we just remove that code?

iI think it's safe to remove any mentions of v1 configs from the codebase

i'm thinking that the log silencers for the tests should probably always be on and the functions removed, but that would be a ton of changes so i left them as-is in this PR

@beeequeue could you sync this with next?

i added a section in the pr body for the current follow-ups that will be needed if we don't do them in this pr

One extra thing we should do before landing this is to check out how the "delegated auth mode" renders now. It's when we spawn npm so it can handle OTP-related prompting. Would you be able to test that out?

im not sure how to trigger it, but when i tried to publish a package and it failed i got a very weird looking output:

screenshot

after i logged in and tried again it worked and looks a bit weird but okay-ish

screenshot

i think this is because i added the spinner after i migrated the npm publishing files, and didn't check how it affected them. i would love if we could use tasks for it but it would require larger refactoring of the publishing functions which is why i dropped that idea

Hm, that's weird that both runs ended up being indented differently... 🤔

As an experiment, I also wanted to take a look how this would look like completely without the "guide". For that, I had to open a PR here: bombshell-dev/clack#500

I think it's worth waiting a couple of days for that PR to possibly get merged in so we could test both versions in the repo here

presumably the different indentation is from the npm command's output being logged without going through clack's formatting, unlike in the error one where they are handled and printed with them

Overall, this looks great. The only thing I'd like to do now is to properly compare the withGuide: true/false variants to decide which one feels better. I'll try to find the time to do that this week.

imo the publish command needs to be redone, but i would also be okay with leaving it as-is for another pr

What kind of a makeover do u think about?

Since this merges to next, we'd need to manually close the issue after merge.

we can add them manually via the Development section to the right, but for some reason github can't find #1043 in the dropdown 💤

i'm gonna do a final check that each command still looks okay after all the rebasing, then i'll merge it.

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I think the auto-close only works when merging to the default branch. So next wouldn't work.

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