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

In node >= v6.1.0:

const readline = require('readline');

readline.emitKeypressEvents(process.stdin);
process.stdin.setRawMode(true);

process.stdin.on('keypress', (str, key) => {
  console.log(str)
  console.log(key)
})

See https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/6626