hookline

About

Node.js global keyboard event listener based on iohook to read a line.

Installation

# TODO 
npm install hookline --save 

Example

'use strict';
const hookLine = require('hookline');
hookLine.on('data', data => console.log(data));
 
hookLine.start();

Manual Build

If you want to manually compile it, follow the instructions below.

Ubuntu 16

• sudo apt install libx11-dev libxtst-dev libxt-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev
• npm run build

macOS

• brew install cmake automake libtool pkg-config
• npm run build

Windows

• Install: msys2 with autotools, pkg-config, libtool, gcc, clang, glib, C++ Build Tools, cmake
• npm run build