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Simple way to ask prompts in a shell/terminal/cmd in nodejs typescript
// @ts-ignore
const readline = require("readline")
export class Question {
static ask(questionTexts: string, callback?: (answer: string) => void): Promise<string> {
return new Promise((resolve) => {
const rl = readline.createInterface({
input: process.stdin,
output: process.stdout,
})
rl.question(questionTexts, (answer) => {
if (callback) {
callback(answer)
}
resolve(answer)
})
})
}
}
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