Which lifecycle phase is typically used to gather user input via prompts?

• A. prompting
• B. end
• C. installing
• D. writing

Answer: (A)

Gathering user input happens during the prompting stage. This stage is where you define questions and collect the user’s responses, typically using a prompting library like Inquirer. The answers obtained here drive how the generator will create files later. For example, you might ask for a project name or preferred features, and then the writing phase uses those answers to fill templates and generate the project files. The other stages happen after you have the input: installing runs dependencies, writing creates the files from the collected data, and end handles finalization. So prompting is the phase designed specifically to gather input.