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

Since node.js 0.8 the keypress event no longer exists. There is however an npm package called keypress that reimplements the event.

Install with npm install keypress, then do something like:

// Windows doesn't use POSIX signals
if (process.platform === "win32") {
    const keypress = require("keypress");
    keypress(process.stdin);
    process.stdin.resume();
    process.stdin.setRawMode(true);
    process.stdin.setEncoding("utf8");
    process.stdin.on("keypress", function(char, key) {
        if (key && key.ctrl && key.name == "c") {
            // Behave like a SIGUSR2
            process.emit("SIGUSR2");
        } else if (key && key.ctrl && key.name == "r") {
            // Behave like a SIGHUP
            process.emit("SIGHUP");
        }
    });
}