raw_input alternative for node.js

javascript, node.js

Solution

Here's a snippet that was recently removed from commander.js. Something along these lines should work.

process.stdout.write("user> ");
process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8');
process.stdin.once('data', function(val){
    //look at val here and execute startserver() et al accordingly
}).resume();

Problem

I am creating a server application and I would like to be able to write commands like `start server`, `stop server`, `broadcast("clients","Hello")` in to my application but I can't figure out how to do it in node. I do know how it would look inside python. ``` while on == 1: cmd = raw_input("user> ") if cmd == "start server": startserver() elif cmd == "stop server": stopserver() on = 0 ``` I have seen some npm modules for this but they require me to write arguments, I want to make this a console type application. Thanks

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