prompt for template

prompts package seems to mess up the stdin, vite selection doesn't really work after interactively picking the vite option, need to investigate

src/constants.ts

@@ -1,16 +1,20 @@
 import { blue, bold, gray, magenta, yellow } from "kolorist"
 
-type Template = {
+export type TemplateBuiltin = {
   name: string
   folder: string
   color: (str: string | number) => string
   editorEntry: string
   entry: string[]
   alias?: string
 }
-type TemplateVite = Omit<Template, "folder" | "entry" | "editorEntry"> & { vite: true }
+export type TemplateVite = Omit<TemplateBuiltin, "folder" | "entry" | "editorEntry"> & {
+  vite: true
+}
+
+export type Template = TemplateBuiltin | TemplateVite
 
-export const templates: (Template | TemplateVite)[] = [
+export const templates: Template[] = [
   {
     name: "typescript",
     alias: "ts",

src/index.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url"
 import temporaryPath from "temporary-path"
 
 import prompts from "prompts"
-import { helpMessage, templates } from "./constants"
+import { type Template, helpMessage, templates } from "./constants"
+import { templatePrompt } from "./template-prompt"
 import { separator, spawnerInstance } from "./util"
 
 const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url))
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ const argv = minimist<{
   string: ["_"],
 })
 
-if (argv.help || !argv.template) {
+if (argv.help) {
   console.log(helpMessage)
   process.exit(0)
 }
@@ -41,9 +42,12 @@ if (argv.delete && argv.keep) {
   process.exit(1)
 }
 
-const template = templates.find(
-  (t) => t.name === argv.template || t.alias === argv.template,
-)
+let template: Template | undefined
+if (argv.template) {
+  template = templates.find((t) => t.name === argv.template || t.alias === argv.template)
+} else {
+  template = await templatePrompt()
+}
 
 if (!template) {
   console.log(red(bold(`Template ${black(argv.template ?? "")} not found`)))
@@ -143,7 +147,8 @@ if (!argv.delete && !argv.keep) {
 }
 
 if (keep) {
-  console.log(`The folder is kept at ${tempFolder}`)
+  console.log(gray(`The folder is kept at ${tempFolder}`))
 } else {
   await rm(tempFolder, { recursive: true, force: true })
+  console.log(gray(`Deleted ${tempFolder}`))
 }

src/template-prompt.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import prompts from "prompts"
+import { type Template, templates } from "./constants"
+
+export const templatePrompt = async () => {
+  const prompt = await prompts({
+    type: "select",
+    name: "template",
+    message: "Select a template",
+    choices: templates.map((t) => ({
+      title: t.color(t.name),
+      value: t,
+    })),
+  })
+
+  return prompt.template as Template
+}