Replace inquirer with enquirer

[takenspc]

The package install size of lighthouse weighs 65.6MB.

https://packagephobia.com/result?p=lighthouse

This seems big. Though some packages are unavoidable, some packages can be replaced with smaller one.

The inquirer is one of big packages as it depends on rxjs. Replacing inquirer with enquirer would reduce the install size.

• inquirer:
• enquirer:

Pros:

• We can reduce the install size

Cons:

• enquirer's type definitions are not suitable for lighthouse usage so that we need our own type definitions

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Note: upgrading jsonld to 5 will reduce the install size too.

• jsonld@4.0.1:
• jsonld@5.0.0:

[takenspc]

Following is the proof-of-concept changes.
takenspc/lighthouse@master...use-enquirer

Though a few devDependencies still depends on inquirer, my motivation is speeding up CI setup which runs lighthouse so that not installing inquirer by executing npm i lighthouse is fine.

[connorjclark]

history can be found: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues?q=inquirer+is%3Aclosed

#642 (comment) heh :P

@takenspc would you like to send a PR?

nice

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RE: the lack of types for Confirm enquirer/enquirer#135 (comment) , Could you try making ./types/enquirer.d.ts and defining the Confirm function there?

[brendankenny]

See also this comment on getting matching behavior in enquirer, but that was more than two years ago so maybe easier to fix now :)

#6658 (comment)

[brendankenny]

Note: upgrading jsonld to 5 will reduce the install size too.

• jsonld@4.0.1:
• jsonld@5.0.0:

It would be great to update this since we just updated to 4.0.1 and it looks like most of the changes are dropping request and node <12 support, but we'll have to wait for digitalbazaar/jsonld.js#443 and the upstream digitalbazaar/http-client#6 to be resolved (currently the used version of a transitive dep has an engines: {node: "^10.17.0"} entry in their package.json so yarn refuses to install on any node 11+).

[davidlehn]

jsonld@5.2.0 has the updated @digitalbazaar/http-client@1.1.0, and also an updated rdf-canonize@3.0.0 which trims off some size due to dropping shipped browser bundles.

[brendankenny]

oh nice, thanks for sharing the update!

[brendankenny]

both of these were updated. Thanks again @takenspc!