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"Keypress" not working when we await answer to a "question" placed in a promise #42800
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Description
Version
v16.13.0
Platform
Ubuntu 18.04
Subsystem
No response
What steps will reproduce the bug?
Hello, I have to use keypress after asking a question to a user. For those 2 actions I use readline as follow :
import readline from "readline";
const menu = readline.createInterface({input: process.stdin, output: process.stdout});
let answer = 0;
const myFunc = async () => {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
menu.question('Choose an exchange to use : ', function (answer) {
if (isNaN(answer) || parseInt(answer) < 1 || parseInt(answer) > 10) answer = undefined;
menu.close();
resolve(answer);
});
});
}
answer = await myFunc();
readline.emitKeypressEvents(process.stdin)
process.stdin.setRawMode(true);
process.stdin.on('keypress', async (character, key) => {
if (key.name === 'c' && key.ctrl) {
process.exit()
}
if (key.name === '1' || key.name === '2' || key.name === '3' || key.name === '4') {
console.log(key.name)
}
});But I have notice that keypress event is definitely not working when I ask a question before. If I just remove the question part, it works as expected.
How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?
It always happens when the condition of asking a question before is respected. I have noticed that when I remove "await" before the function call, it works as expected
What is the expected behavior?
The expected behaviour is : program print "1", "2", "3", "4", when I hit one of these keys, or exit when I hit ctrl+c
What do you see instead?
Instead I see nothing and program doesn't exit.
Additional information
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[-]Keypress not working after using createInterface[/-][+]"Keypress" not working after using "question"[/+][-]"Keypress" not working after using "question"[/-][+]"Keypress" not working when we await answer to a "question" placed in a promise [/+]aduh95 commentedon Apr 20, 2022
The
await myFuncis blocking the rest of the code to be executed, which results on the'keypress'event listener to be added only after the'question'event has been emitted. If you move theanswer = await myFunc()after theprocess.stdin.on('keypress', …)call, it should work as expected.FWIW, you can use
node:readline/promisesmodule on Node.js 17+:github-actions commentedon Jun 25, 2026
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github-actions commentedon Jul 27, 2026
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