Splitting Yeoman prompts into multiple separate groups - yeoman

Question

how would one split a yeoman prompt into parts?
I have a rather extended prompt that i'd like to split into parts with a title for each part.
CSS
- prompt1
HTML
-prompt 2
Something like this:
prompt1: function(){
var done = this.async();
condole.log('title 1');
var prompts = [{
name: 'prompt1',
message: 'Prompt 1:',
}]
},
prompt2: function(){
var done = this.async();
condole.log('title 2');
var prompts = [{
name: 'prompt2',
message: 'Prompt 2:',
}]
},
Thanks!

Answer 1

Update as #Deimyts notes in the comments, the original code stopped working. This is due to API changes in Inquirer.JS documented here.
The base API interface is now inquirer.prompt(questions).then(). There's no more callback function.
Any async question functions is taking a promise as return value instead of requiring this.async().
In a nutshell, instead of using the old var done = this.async() API and resolving the prompt inside the callback with done() just return a promise from the prompting functions (see docs).
prompt1: function() {
this.log("HTML")
return this.prompt([
// configure prompts as before
]).then(function (answers) {
// callback body as before, but no more calling done()
}.bind(this));
},
For more details see #Deimyts answer below.
Yeoman uses a run loop with certain predefined priorities that you can use to put your actions into. As mentioned in the ☞ docs you can group several methods at one priority. Here is a snippet to illustrate a generator with prompts split into two groups HTML and CSS:
'use strict';
var generators = require('yeoman-generator');
module.exports = generators.Base.extend({
constructor: function () {
generators.Base.apply(this, arguments);
},
prompting: {
prompt1: function() {
this.log("HTML")
var done = this.async();
this.prompt([{
type : 'input',
name : 'foo',
message : 'Foo',
}, {
type : 'input',
name : 'bar',
message : 'Bar'
}], function (answers) {
this.foo = answers.foo;
this.bar = answers.bar;
done();
}.bind(this));
},
prompt2: function() {
this.log("CSS")
var done = this.async();
this.prompt([{
type : 'input',
name : 'bam',
message : 'Bam',
}], function (answers) {
this.bam = answers.bam;
done();
}.bind(this));
}
},
configuring: function () {
console.log(this.foo, this.bar, this.bam);
}
});
Using this feature of Yeoman you could modularize your code even further, e.g. by putting your different prompts in separate code files and require / import them into your generator file. But basically the above snippet should do the trick.
Let me know if that helps.

Answer 2

The previous answer wasn't working for me until I made several modifications to the example code.
I can't be 100% certain, but I believe that the difference might be due to differing versions of the yeoman-generator module. So, I'm recording this here in case anyone else runs into the same issue.
For reference, I'm using yeoman-generator v0.23.4, yo v1.8.4, node v6.2.2, & npm v3.9.5.
Modifications:
Remove all instances of var done = this.async(); and done().
The async() function was causing the generator to exit after prompt1, and never run prompt2 or the configuring function.
Add return before calling this.prompt();
Removing async() causes the generator to rush through the prompts without waiting for an answer. Adding return fixes this.
Replace the callback function inside this.prompt() with .then().
Before making this change, the generator would run through the prompts correctly, but would not save the answers, and configuring would simply log undefined undefined undefined.
Original: this.prompt(prompts, callback(answers).bind(this))
Revised: this.prompt(prompts).then(callback(answers).bind(this));
Full Example:
'use strict';
var generators = require('yeoman-generator');
module.exports = generators.Base.extend({
constructor: function () {
generators.Base.apply(this, arguments);
},
prompting: {
prompt1: function() {
this.log("HTML")
return this.prompt([{
type : 'input',
name : 'foo',
message : 'Foo',
}, {
type : 'input',
name : 'bar',
message : 'Bar'
}]).then(function (answers) {
this.foo = answers.foo;
this.bar = answers.bar;
}.bind(this));
},
prompt2: function() {
this.log("CSS")
return this.prompt([{
type : 'input',
name : 'bam',
message : 'Bam',
}])
.then(function(answers) {
this.bam = answers.bam;
}.bind(this));
}
},
configuring: function () {
console.log(this.foo, this.bar, this.bam);
console.log('Config: ', this.config);
},
});