That is, in your desktop environment. This will make actual windows pop up, with stuff in them:
npm install opener -g opener http://google.com opener ./my-file.txt opener firefox opener npm run lint
Also if you want to use it programmatically you can do that too:
var opener = require("opener"); opener("http://google.com"); opener("./my-file.txt"); opener("firefox"); opener("npm run lint");
Like opening the user‘s browser with a test harness in your package’s test script:
{ "scripts": { "test": "opener ./test/runner.html" }, "devDependencies": { "opener": "*" } }
Because Windows has start
, Macs have open
, and *nix has xdg-open
. At least according to some guy on StackOverflow. And I like things that work on all three. Like Node.js. And Opener.