[SOLVED] Get console tab title in Node JS

Issue

I have found plenty of answers/packages for setting the tab title of a console window, e.g. href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29548477/how-do-you-set-the-terminal-tab-title-from-node-js">How do you set the terminal tab title from Node.js?

Is there a way to get the title of a tab? I want to set it when the app launches and reset it back to what it was when it exits.

const getTitle = () => 'TODO'
const title = getTitle()

// set title
process.stdout.write('\x1b]0;My App Title\x07')

process.on('exit', () => process.stdout.write(`\x1b]0;${title}\x07`))

If it's possible, my guess is I would need to temporarily pipe stdout to a memory stream, console.log some voodoo, set title = myStream.toString(), then redirect stdout to the original stream. I don't know what the voodoo would be, though.

I'm using Git Bash (inside Windows Terminal), and if there's no cross-platform way to do this (i.e. retrieving the title from command prompt, powershell, zsh, etc), I'm totally fine with that. I did find Linux how to get window title with just shell script? which is a shell script that does this, but it relies on pstree, which is not included in Git Bash. I suppose I could download Windows SysInternals and use pslist64.exe -t in a child process, but that seems like a lot of work for something that is either natively impossible or natively simple--i.e. far more work and headache than it is worth.

Thoughts? Ideas? Hacks?

Solution

You are looking for process.title. You can get and set the value to any string or number.

Answered By - aroary

Answer Checked By - Mildred Charles (WPSolving Admin)