survey

A library to easily create rich and interactive prompts in the terminal.

Inpired by AlecAivazis/survey

Use survey.Question for String input and survey.Confirmation for Bool input.

gleam add survey

import survey
import gleam/option.{type Option, None, Some}

pub fn main() {
 let assert [
   #("first_name", survey.StringAnswer(first_name)),
   #("last_name", survey.StringAnswer(last_name)),
   #("survey_fan", survey.BoolAnswer(survey_fan)),
 ] =
   [
     #(
       "first_name",
       survey.new_question(
         prompt: "First Name:",
         help: Some("Please enter your first name"),
         default: None,
         validate: None,
         transform: None,
       ),
     ),
     #(
       "last_name",
       survey.new_question(
         prompt: "Last Name:",
         help: Some("Please enter your last name"),
         default: None,
         validate: None,
         transform: None,
       ),
     ),
     #(
       "survey_fan",
       survey.new_confirmation(
         prompt: "Are you a survey fan?:",
         help: Some("It's a great library"),
         default: Some(True),
         transform: Some(fn(_: Bool) -> Bool { True }),
       ),
     ),
   ]
   |> survey.ask_many

 case survey_fan {
   True -> io.println("Hello, " <> first_name <> " " <> last_name <> "!")
   False -> io.println("I don't believe you")
 }
}

⟩ gleam run
  Compiled in 0.02s
   Running survey.main
First Name: Survey
Last Name: User
Are you a survey fan?: [Y/n] 
Hello, Survey User!

Further documentation can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/survey.

Development

gleam run   # Run the project
gleam test  # Run the tests
gleam shell # Run an Erlang shell