Design Beautiful, Intuitive and Secure Node.js CLI User Input Experiences with Enquirer

Flags and arguments are only the most primitive ways of taking in user input. There is no opportunity to interactively prompt the user so they don't need to look up documentation or memorize your flags. Fortunately there are many libraries that help take in user input, however, there are also ways to do it badly and other ways to do them well. Enquirer is a great foundation to build Interactive CLIs that don't leak tokens and passwords, and make use of design affordances to offer beautiful and intuitive user prompts.

However, don't get overzealous with the prompting: remember your CLI's non-human users - Bots and Continuous Integration environments! We end with some advice on how to blend flags and prompting seamlessly.