tony-go
proposal: new architecture
Context
Clix development is stuck at this point. Issue #16 is still a blocker as simulating keystrokes within Node.js processes doesn't seem possible (https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/43137).
In hindsight, we probably didn't adopt the right approach.
Now I know that what We try to accomplish is to simulate the execution of the CLI program in a terminal: writing scenarios that will simulate user actions on the terminal.
Proposal
Spawn a headless terminal instead of spawning a simple process.
xterm-headless is probably a good candidate for a first POC.
I'll continue to browse the web looking for new candidates.
A first good step should be to take a look at https://github.com/microsoft/node-pty, for example, and see if it's easy to spawn a command within and get the result programmatically.