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.
read instead?Because read does not work inside a Node.js REPL.
Apache-2.0
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A single-line prompt that allows reading data from user input
We found that askline demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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