Interactive console input
Simple way to be able to use the Node-RED process console to interact with your flow via text input.
With the given flow, upon pressing the inject button the console will look like this:
4 Nov 16:35:02 - [info] Starting flows
4 Nov 16:35:02 - [info] Started flows
Who are you?█
Then upon typing an input and pressing Enter, the console will look like this:
4 Nov 16:35:02 - [info] Starting flows
4 Nov 16:35:02 - [info] Started flows
Who are you?Foo Bar
Hey there Foo Bar!
And additionally the input is sent to the debug console.
Credit to this post for the example: https://www.codecademy.com/articles/getting-user-input-in-node-js
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