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 user to provide input for the color from the keyboard. Thank you!

Answer 1

I would suggest the readline-sync module as well if you don't require something asynchronous.

# npm install readline-sync

const readline = require('readline-sync');

let name = readline.question("What is your name?");

console.log("Hi " + name + ", nice to meet you.");

Answer 2

Node has a built in API for this...

const readline = require('readline');

const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout
});

rl.question('Please enter a color? ', (value) => {
    let color = value
    console.log(`You entered ${color}`);
    rl.close();
});