Support key events (eg onkeydown)

[jakeg]

What is the problem this feature would solve?

Currently listening for keyboard input in Bun either involves waiting for a user to hit enter after a prompt() or using process.stdin like this:

process.stdin.setRawMode(true)
process.stdin.on('data', (e) => {
  console.log(e)
    if (e[0] == 32) {
      console.log('Spacebar pressed')
      process.stdin.setRawMode(false)
    }
})

What is the feature you are proposing to solve the problem?

What if Bun supported key events instead, like browsers.

onkeydown = (e) => {
  if (e.key === ' ') {
    console.log('Spacebar pressed')
  }
}

What alternatives have you considered?

No response

[Jarred-Sumner]

interesting idea

it's a bit tricky because for terminals you need to enter "raw mode" which means you can't press ctrl + c anymore and a few other things