set-blocking

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.

License

ISC

Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See standard-version for commit guidelines.

2.0.0 (2016-05-17)

Features

• add an isTTY check (#3) (66ce277)

BREAKING CHANGES

• stdio/stderr will not be set to blocking if isTTY === false

1.0.0 (2016-05-14)

Features

• implemented shim for stream._handle.setBlocking (6bde0c0)