reopen-tty

reopen-tty

Why?

Opening and using /dev/tty is trivial only on Unixes. Windows has a different way of doing this.

How?

On Unixes it just opens /dev/tty and passes it to tty.ReadStream or tty.WriteStream depending on the desired tty kind.

On Windows it opens conin$/conout$ using Node.js internals, and passes them to tty.ReadStream/tty.WriteStream.

Installation

npm install -g reopen-tty

Usage

const reopenTTY = require('reopen-tty');

reopenTTY.stdin((err, tty) => {
  tty.on('data', (data) => console.log('DATA: ' + data));
});

LICENSE

This software is licensed under the MIT License.

Copyright Fedor Indutny, 2016.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.