Allow programmatic re-rendering about inquirer.js HOT 4 CLOSED

What a great idea! It'd be awesome if we could display loading indicators using the fired events.

Is it currently possible to disable/pause the user input until a check is performed (e.g. the async version check example in the yeoman link above)?

With lengthy actions that need to be completed before allowing the user to get to the next step, it is beneficial to display loading indicators or other dynamic updates.

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Is it currently possible to disable/pause the user input until a check is performed (e.g. the async version check example in the yeoman link above)?

The best way is to nest calls to Inquirer. So you make your first call, get user feedback and handle it in the callback. If you then need to make async actions, do them (display a loader with some other Inquirer UI who're not the prompt UI), once its down, prompt the user with a new prompt session.

Basically, the use case you ask for won't be implemented as programmatic re-rendering and I don't think it need another API. The current way to do it seems reasonable to me.

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This issue was created 5 years ago. This was being addressed in #289, but @dthree canceled it. The proposed API was implemented in Vorpal as I read on #289 (comment), but not addressed at Inquirer in that time.

The current version of Inquirer (6.2.0 as seen in package.json) gives the option through Reactive Interface to dynamically handle question prompts. Is that the case we tried to accomplish when the issue was first introduced? If that's that case we can safety close this issue, else more investigation has to been done.

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Hum, we never really implemented this in core. I think it's fair to close it as there's no plan to make this work right now - and I don't think there's an easy win here.

Maybe if we ever get done with the refactor idea then it'd be a good time to revisit.

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