Problem using process.stdout.cursorTo() command in npm terminal

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Running script from the npm panel fail on process.stdout.cursorTo(0) but running the same script from terminal using npm run "script" does not.

but running exactly the same from console...

 

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Elena Pogorelova
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clearLine and cursorTo are undefined when process.stdout is not a tty. And Node/NPM console in WebStorm is non-Tty, as node process is started with input/output streams redirection. Please see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-1933.
Note that these functions are no longer documented as part of process.stdout. This code has moved to redline (https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v4.x/docs/api/readline.html)

readline.cursorTo(process.stdout, 0);
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Hey Elena, thank you for your reply.

I have found a similar answer online so I suspected that it was due to being non-TTY, in that post they suggested to use 'readline' module of node.js that has a cursorTo and clearLine, and although that using those does not cause the error the cursor does not move to the desired position.

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Elena Pogorelova
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>although that using those does not cause the error the cursor does not move to the desired position.

readline cursorTo(), etc. methods are still TTY methods - though they are defined in non-TTY environment, so no errors are thrown, they still require TTY environment to work 

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