input() analog

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19718669/nodejs-how-to-take-in-text-input-from-a-keyboard-and-store-it-into-a-variable-i

readline-sync does a lot of hacks to make a synchronous interface on Windows and Linux (and probably MacOS).

Built-in readline does it but requires callback or asynchrony.

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Related: request and request-promise-native as replacements for Python requests library.