How to take in text input from a keyboard and store it into a variable?

Question

I would just like something simple to read text from a keyboard and store it into a variable. So for:

var color = \'blue\'

I would like the

Answer 1

You can use stdio for this. It is as simple as follows:

import { ask } from 'stdio';
const color = await ask('What is your keyboard color?');

This module includes retries if you decide to accept only some predefined answers:

import { ask } from 'stdio';
const color = await ask('What is your keyboard color?', { options: ['red', 'blue', 'orange'], maxRetries: 3 });

Take a look at stdio, it includes other features that may be useful for you (like command-line arguments parsing, standard input reading at once or by lines...).