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

Answer 1

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();
});