How to read from stdin line by line in Node

Question

You can use the readline module to read from stdin line by line:

var readline = require('readline');
var rl = readline.createInterface({
  input: process.stdin,
  output: process.stdout,
  terminal: false
});

rl.on('line', function(line){
    console.log(line);
})

// Work on POSIX and Windows
var fs = require("fs");
var stdinBuffer = fs.readFileSync(0); // STDIN_FILENO = 0
console.log(stdinBuffer.toString());

readline is specifically designed to work with terminal (that is process.stdin.isTTY === true). There are a lot of modules which provide split functionality for generic streams, like split. It makes things super-easy:

process.stdin.pipe(require('split')()).on('data', processLine)

function processLine (line) {
  console.log(line + '!')
}

#!/usr/bin/env node

const EventEmitter = require('events');

function stdinLineByLine() {
  const stdin = new EventEmitter();
  let buff = '';

  process.stdin
    .on('data', data => {
      buff += data;
      lines = buff.split(/\r\n|\n/);
      buff = lines.pop();
      lines.forEach(line => stdin.emit('line', line));
    })
    .on('end', () => {
      if (buff.length > 0) stdin.emit('line', buff);
    });

  return stdin;
}

const stdin = stdinLineByLine();
stdin.on('line', console.log);