Reading value from console, interactively

you can't do a "while(done)" loop because that would require blocking on input, something node.js doesn't like to do.

Instead set up a callback to be called each time something is entered:

var stdin = process.openStdin();

stdin.addListener("data", function(d) {
    // note:  d is an object, and when converted to a string it will
    // end with a linefeed.  so we (rather crudely) account for that  
    // with toString() and then trim() 
    console.log("you entered: [" + 
        d.toString().trim() + "]");
  });

I've used another API for this purpose..

var readline = require('readline');
var rl = readline.createInterface(process.stdin, process.stdout);
rl.setPrompt('guess> ');
rl.prompt();
rl.on('line', function(line) {
    if (line === "right") rl.close();
    rl.prompt();
}).on('close',function(){
    process.exit(0);
});

This allows to prompt in loop until the answer is right. Also it gives nice little console.You can find the details @ http://nodejs.org/api/readline.html#readline_example_tiny_cli

I believe this deserves a modern async-await answer, assuming node >= 7.x is used.

The answer still uses ReadLine::question but wraps it so that the while (done) {} is possible, which is something the OP asks about explicitely.

var cl = readln.createInterface( process.stdin, process.stdout );
var question = function(q) {
    return new Promise( (res, rej) => {
        cl.question( q, answer => {
            res(answer);
        })
    });
};

and then an example usage

(async function main() {
    var answer;
    while ( answer != 'yes' ) {
        answer = await question('Are you sure? ');
    }
    console.log( 'finally you are sure!');
})();

leads to following conversation

Are you sure? no
Are you sure? no
Are you sure? yes
finally you are sure!

Edit. In order to properly end the input, call

cl.close();

at the end of the script.

The Readline API has changed quite a bit since 12'. The doc's show a useful example to capture user input from a standard stream :

const readline = require('readline');

const rl = readline.createInterface({
  input: process.stdin,
  output: process.stdout
});

rl.question('What do you think of Node.js? ', (answer) => {
  console.log('Thank you for your valuable feedback:', answer);
  rl.close();
});

More information here.