repl: add welcome message by gengjiawen · Pull Request #25947 · nodejs/node (original) (raw)

Motivation

I want to make node more friendly for new user. Actually it take me very long to find out node repl can load script :)

Also I am not quite sure I put the change in best location in repl.js.

Welcome message

The current welcome message is (copyed from windows powershell):

Welcome to Node.js v12.0.0-pre. Type ".help" for more information.

Compare with other languages
In python (using docker run --rm -it python):

Python 3.7.2 (default, Jan 23 2019, 02:31:57) [GCC 6.3.0 20170516] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

In java (use docker run --rm -it openjdk:11):

Feb 05, 2019 2:42:25 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$1 run INFO: Created user preferences directory. | Welcome to JShell -- Version 11.0.1 | For an introduction type: /help intro

May need port to Node 8 && 10.

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