askpassword
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A password prompt that does not print data to the TTY.
import askpassword from 'askpassword';
console.log('Please enter a password:');
const password = await askpassword(process.stdin);
console.log('You entered the following password:', password.toString());
The stream passed to askpassword can be any kind of Readable stream.
If it is a TTY, askpassword 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.
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A password prompt that does print data to the TTY
The npm package askpassword receives a total of 15,341 weekly downloads. As such, askpassword popularity was classified as popular.
We found that askpassword demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 30 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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