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

We can also use NodeJS core standard input functionality for the same. ctrl+D for end standard input data reading.

process.stdin.resume();
process.stdin.setEncoding("utf-8");
var input_data = "";

process.stdin.on("data", function(input) {
  input_data += input; // Reading input from STDIN
  if (input === "exit\n") {
    process.exit();
  }
});

process.stdin.on("end", function() {
  main(input_data);
});

function main(input) {
  process.stdout.write(input);
}