What is the Windows equivalent of process.on('SIGINT') in node.js?

Question

I\'m following the guidance here (listening for SIGINT events) to gracefully shutdown my Windows-8-hosted node.js application in response to Ctrl+

Answer 1

Currently there is still no support in node for capturing the windows console control events, so there are no equivalents to the POSIX signals:

https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/1553

However the tty module documentation does give an example of a mechanism to capture the key presses in order to initiate a graceful shutdown, but then this does only work for ctrl+c.

var tty = require('tty');

process.stdin.resume();
tty.setRawMode(true);

process.stdin.on('keypress', function(char, key) {
  if (key && key.ctrl && key.name == 'c') {
    console.log('graceful exit of process %d', process.pid);
    process.exit();
  }
});