monitorctrlc

Prevent SIGINT on Ctrl+C

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This function will prevent sending of SIGINT signal when Ctrl+C is pressed. Instead, the specified (or default) callback will be invoked.

Preventing SIGINT in projects that are (for example) using file system watchers on Windows will suppress the annoying Terminate batch job (Y/N)? prompt after Ctrl+C. This gives your watcher consistent behavior across all platforms.

Install

$ npm install --save-dev monitorctrlc
# or yarn
$ yarn add --dev monitorctrlc

Usage

import { monitorCtrlC } from "monitorctrlc";
const monitor = monitorCtrlC();

// ... execute your program

monitor.dispose(); // detaches event handlers and pauses STDIN

API

Assuming:

import { monitorCtrlC, defaultCtrlCHandler } from "monitorctrlc";

monitorCtrlC([onCtrlC]): Disposable

This function will prevent sending of SIGINT signal when Ctrl+C is pressed. Instead, the specified (or default) callback will be invoked.

NOTE: This should only be used by programs that do not normally read from STDIN, as this puts the stream into "raw" mode.

If your program has a normal termination path, you should invoke the dispose method on the object returned by monitorCtrlC to ensure the process can terminate normally. E.g.,

const monitor = monitorCtrlC();

// ... processing

monitor.dispose(); // detaches event handlers and pauses STDIN

onCtrlC

Type: Function
Default: default handler

optional function that will be called when Ctrl+C is pressed; if not specified, default handler that prints a message and exits the current process will be used.

defaultCtrlCHandler()

The function that handles Ctrl+C by default (if no callback is specified for monitorCtrlC).

Contributing

1. Clone git repository

2. npm install (will install dev dependencies needed by the next step)

3. npm start (will start a file system watcher that will re-lint JavaScript and JSON files + re-run all tests when change is detected)

4. Make changes, don't forget to add tests, submit a pull request.

How to publish

In terminal of your choice:

cd ~/work/node-monitorctrlc
yarn clobber

yarn version # updates version in "./package.json", requires yarn 0.20+
yarn install
yarn dist

cd dist
yarn publish # for beta releases: yarn publish --tag beta

License

MIT © Pandell Technology