set-blocking

set blocking stdio and stderr ensuring that terminal output does not truncate

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set-blocking
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set blocking stdio and stderr ensuring that terminal output does not truncate.
const setBlocking = require('set-blocking')
setBlocking(true)
console.log(someLargeStringToOutput)

Historical Context/Word of Warning

This was created as a shim to address the bug discussed in node #6456. This bug crops up on newer versions of Node.js (0.12+), truncating terminal output.
You should be mindful of the side-effects caused by using set-blocking:
  • if your module sets blocking to true, it will effect other modules
consuming your library. In yargs we only call setBlocking(true) once we already know we are about to call process.exit(code).
  • this patch will not apply to subprocesses spawned with isTTY = true, this is
the default spawn() behavior.

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ISC