trailpack-repl: No text terminal available if using nodemon

[jaykilleen]

I have followed the steps in the readme and added a config/repl.js and set allowNoTTY to true. I still see the error info: trailpack-repl: No text terminal available. when running npm start. This is a fresh install of trails.js on a Windows 10 machine running Git Bash.

// config/repl.js
module.exports = {
  /**
   * REPL is disabled automatically if no text terminal is available. Set
   * to "true" to override this behavior.
   */
  allowNoTTY: true
}

I understand if the fix is, use a VM running Ubuntu instead of native windows but thought this might be an issue you might need to fix.

BTW so glad to give this project a spin after hearing it on JSJ :)

[jaykilleen]

I believe this is working now and the issue was caused by invoking the server.sj using nodemon. I wanted changes to my files to autorestart the server so set npm start to nodemon server.js. Seems this means I don't get the repl functionality.

[jaykilleen]

Also I had not added exports.repl = require('./repl') to config/index.js.

Have added this. The error output on npm start is still

[nodemon] 1.12.1
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching: *.*
[nodemon] starting `node server.js`
info: trailpack-repl: No text terminal available.
warn: trailpack-repl: allowNoTTY is enabled, Launching REPL anyway.
info: config.paths.www: No www directory is set, www middleware will not be loaded
info: config.session.secret: No secret given so session are disabled
info: All trailpacks are loaded.

but still don't see the > Trails also can no longer ctrl+c to kill the terminal.

[jaykilleen]

Ignore the error re: no ctrl+c this seems to have been introduced with the node 8 LTS release and Windows.

microsoft/node-pty#7
PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH#914

FYI Closing the terminal then causes a config.session.secret: No secret given so session are disabled error when restarting the application. Need to hunt down the pids and kill them manually I suppose.