Node.js console gets closed immediately after i execute the program from Visual Studio 2012 in Windows 8

Question

I have installed Node.js in Windows 8 PC and installed the Node.js plugin for Visual Studio 2012. I executed a basic program from Visual Studio 2012 which just prints a string on console

consol.log("Hi There");

The Node.js console prints "Hi There" and immediately terminates itself. Can anyone provide a solution to fix it?

I have gone through a similar question, is there any other way to fix it apart from using setTimeOut() in the code? (Why does the Node.js scripts console close instantly in Windows 8?)

Answer 1

From the Debug menu in Visual Studio choose "Options". After this choose "NodeJS Tools" and tick the checkbox "Wait for input when process exits normally".

Answer 2

Instead of directly executing node app.js from Visual Studio, you could instead call a batch file:

wait.bat app.js

Which inside of wait.bat it simply:

node %1
pause press [enter]

or, you could do this on one line, or wrap it in a module or a function:

require('readline')
    .createInterface(process.stdin, process.stdout)
    .question("Press [Enter] to exit...", function(){
        process.exit();
});

It's using an currently marked as "unstable" module of Node to read line input from stdin. It ignores the input though and then closes the process using the exit function.