askline

A single-line prompt that allows reading data from user input.

import askline from 'askline';

console.log('Please enter a something:');
const result = await askline({ input: process.stdin, output: process.stdout });
console.log('You entered the following password:', result.toString());

The stream passed to askline can be any kind of Readable stream. If it is a TTY, askline will temporarily remove all other 'data' and 'readable' listeners from it, and set the TTY into raw mode if it has not been in raw mode to begin with.

Why not use read instead?

Because read does not work inside a Node.js REPL.

LICENSE

Apache-2.0