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Sep 21 - Sep 27, 2026

Applications / Continuous integration

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

Aug 01 - Aug 07, 2022

Libraries / Signals

• human-signals (⭐286) - Human-friendly process signals.

Jul 25 - Jul 31, 2022

Libraries / Filesystem

• global-cache-dir (⭐6) - Get the global OS-specific cache directory.

Apr 05 - Apr 11, 2021

Resources

• Cross-platform terminal characters (⭐250) - All the characters that work on most terminals and most operating systems.

Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2020

Applications / Continuous integration

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

Jan 06 - Jan 12, 2020

Libraries / Filesystem

• fs-extra (⭐9.6k) - Combines graceful-fs with better JSON file reading and promises.

Aug 26 - Sep 01, 2019

Libraries / Streams

• random-bytes-readable-stream (⭐77) - Cross-platform fs.createReadStream('/dev/urandom').

Jul 08 - Jul 14, 2019

Libraries / Shell

• gulp-execa (⭐56) - Cross-platform command execution in Gulp.js.

Jul 01 - Jul 07, 2019

Libraries / Filesystem

• dev-null-cli (⭐93) - Cross-platform /dev/null.

Libraries / Streams

• noop-stream (⭐50) - Cross-platform fs.createReadStream('/dev/null').

Apr 29 - May 05, 2019

Resources

• Writing Cross-Platform Node.js - Great tutorial covering many common issues that arise when writing cross-platform code: path creation, script execution, newline characters.

Applications / Virtualization

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

Applications / Databases

• Redis (⭐10k) - Native port of Redis for Windows.

Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2019

Known issues / Windows registry

• cmd.exe unicode woes (⭐34k) - By default, cmd.exe does not display Unicode characters on Windows.

• exec() behavior between shells (⭐41) - Depending on the shell being used, e.g., bash vs. dash, child_process.exec() has inconsistent exit behavior.

See also / Windows registry

• awesome-desktop-js (⭐873) - List of tools to build JavaScript applications on the desktop.

Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2019

Applications / Development environment

• nvm (⭐95k) / n (⭐20k) - Node version manager for macOS/Linux.

Applications / Continuous integration

• Azure Pipelines - Windows/macOS/Linux. Free for OSS projects with 10 parallel jobs.

Libraries / Signals

• fkill (⭐797) - Kill processes. Cross-platform.

Libraries / Windows registry

• windows-registry-node (⭐117) - Access/modify the Windows registry and set file associations.

Apr 08 - Apr 14, 2019

Resources

• Core Node.js documentation - Especially the os, path, fs, process and child_process modules.

• Cross-platform Node.js guide (⭐1.4k) - How to write cross-platform Node.js code.

Applications / Development environment

• Node.js - Node.js installer for various platforms.

• nvm-windows (⭐48k) - Manage multiple installations of Node.js on a Windows computer.

• npm-windows-upgrade (⭐2.5k) - Upgrade npm on Windows.

• windows-build-tools (⭐3.4k) - Install C++ Build Tools for Windows using npm.

Applications / Continuous integration

• AppVeyor - Focused on Windows. Free tiers are available for OSS projects.

• Travis - Windows/macOS/Linux. Free for OSS projects.

Applications / Virtualization

• ievms (⭐68) - 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 Microsoft's licensing.

Applications / Compatibility

• Wine - Run Windows API calls on Linux, Mac, BSD and Solaris.

• Cygwin - Run POSIX on Windows.

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

• MinGW - gcc on Windows.

• msys / Git Bash - Bash on Windows.

Libraries / OS identification

• is-wsl (⭐199) - Detect whether current platform is WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

• getos (⭐79) - Retrieve the current OS, including Linux distribution.

• os-name (⭐149) - Get the name of the current operating system.

• systeminformation (⭐3.1k) - Hardware/software system information.

Libraries / Shell

• cross-spawn (⭐1.2k) - Cross-platform implementation of child_process.spawn().

• shelljs (⭐14k) - Cross-platform Unix shell commands.

• node-windows (⭐2.9k) - Windows support for Node.js scripts (daemons, eventlog, UAC, etc).

• clipboardy (⭐2k) / clipboard-cli (⭐509) - Cross-platform copy/paste.

Libraries / Environment

• cross-env (⭐6.5k) - Set environment variables cross-platform.

• user-home (⭐156) - Get the path to the user home directory. Cross-platform.

• username (⭐144) - Get the current username.

• osenv (⭐137) - Cross-platform environment variables.

• is-elevated (⭐44) - Check if the process is running with elevated privileges.

• which (⭐352) - Cross-platform implementation of Unix's which.

Libraries / Filesystem

• rimraf (⭐5.8k) / del (⭐1.3k) - Delete files and folders. Cross-platform.

• make-dir (⭐480) - Cross-platform mkdir -p.

• readdirp (⭐420) - Recursive version of fs.readdir().

• graceful-fs (⭐1.3k) - Improves the fs module, especially on Windows.

• any-path (⭐4) - Use Windows and POSIX paths interchangeably when fetching values from an object.

Libraries / Signals

• signal-exit (⭐199) - Cross-platform exit handler.

Libraries / Processes

• ps-list (⭐286) - Get running processes.

• process-exists (⭐62) - Check if a process exists.

Libraries / Desktop UI

• open (⭐3.5k) - Opens stuff like websites, files, executables. Cross-platform.

• node-notifier (⭐5.8k) - Cross-platform desktop notifications.

Libraries / Windows registry

• node-winreg (⭐218) - Access the Windows registry.

• rage-edit (⭐56) - Access/modify the Windows registry.

Known issues / Windows registry

• spawn issues (⭐34k) - child_process.spawn() behavior is not consistent between Windows and Linux.

Dec 28 - Jan 03, 2015

Resources

• Microsoft Node.js Guidelines (⭐2.5k) - Tips, tricks, and resources for working with Node.js on Microsoft platforms.

Applications / Virtualization

• VirtualBox - General purpose software for running x86 virtual machines.

Libraries / OS identification

• is-windows (⭐49) - Detect whether the current platform is Windows.

Libraries / Shell

• execa (⭐7.6k) - Cross-platform implementation of child_process.{execFile,exec}.

• log-symbols (⭐770) - Colored symbols for various log levels with Windows fallbacks.

• figures (⭐633) - Unicode symbols with Windows fallbacks.

Libraries / Filesystem

• cpy (⭐438) - Copy files. Cross-platform.

• chokidar (⭐12k) - Improved cross-platform file watching.