nodejs how to read keystrokes from stdin

Question

Is it possible to listen for incoming keystrokes in a running nodejs script? If I use process.openStdin() and listen to its \'data\' event then the

Answer 1

You can achieve it this way, if you switch to raw mode:

var stdin = process.openStdin(); 
require('tty').setRawMode(true);    

stdin.on('keypress', function (chunk, key) {
  process.stdout.write('Get Chunk: ' + chunk + '\n');
  if (key && key.ctrl && key.name == 'c') process.exit();
});