awesome-cross-platform-nodejs

Especially the , , , and modules

Cross-platform Node.js guide

How to write cross-platform Node.js code

Microsoft Node.js Guidelines

Tips, tricks, and resources for working with Node.js on Microsoft platforms

Great tutorial covering many common issues that arise when writing cross-platform code: path creation, script execution, newline characters

Cross-platform terminal characters

All the characters that work on most terminals and most operating systems

Node.js installer for various platforms

nvm-windows

Manage multiple installations of Node.js on a Windows computer

nvm

/ - Node version manager for macOS/Linux

npm-windows-upgrade

Upgrade npm on Windows

windows-build-tools

Install C++ Build Tools for Windows using npm

Focused on Windows. Free tiers are available for OSS projects

Windows/macOS/Linux. Free for OSS projects

Windows/macOS/Linux. Free for OSS projects with 10 parallel jobs

Windows/macOS/Linux. GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows

Windows/macOS/Linux. GitLab CI/CD is a tool built into GitLab for software development

ievms

Automated installer for the free virtual machine images that Microsoft provides for testing on multiple versions of IE. These images can be useful for cross-platform testing various technologies, however make sure you read and understand Microsofts' licensing

General purpose software for running x86 virtual machines

Software platform to create, deploy and manage virtualized application containers on a common operating system, with an ecosystem of allied tools

Run Windows API calls on Linux, Mac, BSD and Solaris

Run POSIX on Windows

Run the Linux command line on Windows (ELF binary execution, system calls, filesystem, Bash, core utilities, common applications)

on Windows

/ - Bash on Windows

Redis

Native port of Redis for Windows

is-windows

Detect whether the current platform is Windows

is-wsl

Detect whether current platform is WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

getos

Retrieve the current OS, including Linux distribution

os-name

Get the name of the current operating system

systeminformation

Hardware/software system information

execa

Cross-platform implementation of

gulp-execa

Cross-platform command execution in Gulp.js

cross-spawn

Cross-platform implementation of

shelljs

Cross-platform Unix shell commands

node-windows

Windows support for Node.js scripts (daemons, eventlog, UAC, etc)

log-symbols

Colored symbols for various log levels with Windows fallbacks

figures

Unicode symbols with Windows fallbacks

clipboardy

/ - Cross-platform copy/paste

cross-env

Set environment variables cross-platform

user-home

Get the path to the user home directory. Cross-platform

username

Get the current username

osenv

Cross-platform environment variables

is-elevated

Check if the process is running with elevated privileges

which

Cross-platform implementation of Unix's

rimraf

/ - Delete files and folders. Cross-platform

make-dir

Cross-platform

readdirp

Recursive version of

cpy

Copy files. Cross-platform

chokidar

Improved cross-platform file watching

graceful-fs

Improves the module, especially on Windows

fs-extra

Combines with better JSON file reading and promises

any-path

Use Windows and POSIX paths interchangeably when fetching values from an object

dev-null-cli

Cross-platform

global-cache-dir

Get the global OS-specific cache directory

fkill

Kill processes. Cross-platform

signal-exit

Cross-platform handler

human-signals

Human-friendly process signals

ps-list

Get running processes

process-exists

Check if a process exists

noop-stream

Cross-platform

random-bytes-readable-stream

Cross-platform

open

Opens stuff like websites, files, executables. Cross-platform

node-notifier

Cross-platform desktop notifications

node-winreg

Access the Windows registry

rage-edit

Access/modify the Windows registry

windows-registry-node

Access/modify the Windows registry and set file associations

cmd.exe unicode woes

By default, does not display Unicode characters on Windows

spawn issues

behavior is not consistent between Windows and Linux

exec() behavior between shells

Depending on the shell being used, e.g., bash vs. dash, has inconsistent exit behavior

awesome-desktop-js

List of tools to build JavaScript applications on the desktop