https://github.com/generate/common-questions
An object of questions commonly used by project generators or when initializing projects. Questions can be overridden, updated or extended.
https://github.com/generate/common-questions
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An object of questions commonly used by project generators or when initializing projects. Questions can be overridden, updated or extended.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/generate/common-questions
- Owner: generate
- License: mit
- Created: 2015-11-28T04:21:32.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-09-12T00:32:57.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-28T00:41:08.096Z (about 1 year ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 33.2 KB
- Stars: 9
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# common-questions [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/common-questions) [](https://npmjs.org/package/common-questions) [](https://travis-ci.org/generate/common-questions)
An object of questions commonly used by project generators or when initializing projects. Questions can be overridden, updated or extended.
## Install
Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/):
```sh
$ npm install --save common-questions
```
**HEADS UP!** as of v0.2.0 this has been refactored to work as a [base](https://github.com/node-base/base) plugin.
## Usage
```js
var questions = require('common-questions');
```
## Questions
Adds the following [questions](https://github.com/node-base/base-questions) and message text:
**Author questions**
* `author.name`: `Author's name?`
* `author.username`: `Author's GitHub username?`
* `author.twitter`: `Author's twitter username?`
* `author.email`: `Author's email address?`
* `author.url`: `Author's URL?`
**Project questions**
* `project.name`: `Project name?`
* `project.alias`: `Project alias?`
* `project.description`: `Project description?`
* `project.version`: `Project version?`
* `project.license`: `Project license?`
* `project.owner`: `Project owner?`
and...
* `name`: `Project name?`
* `alias`: `Project alias?`
* `description`: `Project description?`
* `version`: `Project version?`
* `license`: `Project license?`
* `owner`: `Project owner?`
## History
**v0.2.1**
Questions without a namespace have been deprecated and will be removed in 0.3.0.
**v0.2.0**
Refactored to work as a [base](https://github.com/node-base/base) plugin.
## About
### Related projects
* [answer-store](https://www.npmjs.com/package/answer-store): Store answers to user prompts, based on locale and/or current working directory. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/answer-store "Store answers to user prompts, based on locale and/or current working directory.")
* [base-questions](https://www.npmjs.com/package/base-questions): Plugin for base-methods that adds methods for prompting the user and storing the answers on… [more](https://github.com/node-base/base-questions) | [homepage](https://github.com/node-base/base-questions "Plugin for base-methods that adds methods for prompting the user and storing the answers on a project-by-project basis.")
* [base](https://www.npmjs.com/package/base): base is the foundation for creating modular, unit testable and highly pluggable node.js applications, starting… [more](https://github.com/node-base/base) | [homepage](https://github.com/node-base/base "base is the foundation for creating modular, unit testable and highly pluggable node.js applications, starting with a handful of common methods, like `set`, `get`, `del` and `use`.")
* [question-cache](https://www.npmjs.com/package/question-cache): A wrapper around inquirer that makes it easy to create and selectively reuse questions. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/question-cache "A wrapper around inquirer that makes it easy to create and selectively reuse questions.")
* [question-store](https://www.npmjs.com/package/question-store): Ask questions, persist the answers. Basic support for i18n and storing answers based on current… [more](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/question-store) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/question-store "Ask questions, persist the answers. Basic support for i18n and storing answers based on current working directory.")
### Contributing
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](../../issues/new).
### Building docs
_(This document was generated by [verb-generate-readme](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme) (a [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb) generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in [.verb.md](.verb.md).)_
To generate the readme and API documentation with [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb):
```sh
$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb
```
### Running tests
Install dev dependencies:
```sh
$ npm install -d && npm test
```
### Author
**Jon Schlinkert**
* [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert)
* [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert)
### License
Copyright © 2016, [Jon Schlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert).
Released under the [MIT license](https://github.com/generate/common-questions/blob/master/LICENSE).
***
_This file was generated by [verb-generate-readme](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme), v0.1.30, on August 17, 2016._