Contents

• Resources
• Applications
• Development environment
• Continuous integration
• Virtualization
• Compatibility
• Databases
• Libraries
• OS identification
• Shell
• Environment
• Filesystem
• Signals
• Processes
• Streams
• Desktop UI
• Windows registry
• Known issues
• Support

Resources

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

Applications

Development environment

• Node.js - Node.js installer for various platforms.
• nvm-windows - Manage multiple installations of Node.js on a Windows computer.
• nvm / n - Node version manager for macOS/Linux.
• npm-windows-upgrade - Upgrade npm on Windows.
• windows-build-tools - Install C++ Build Tools for Windows using npm.

Continuous integration

• AppVeyor - Focused on Windows. Free tiers are available for OSS projects.
• Travis - Windows/macOS/Linux. Free for OSS projects.
• Azure Pipelines - Windows/macOS/Linux. Free for OSS projects with 10 parallel jobs.
• Github Action - Windows/macOS/Linux. GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows.
• Gitlab CI - Windows/macOS/Linux. GitLab CI/CD is a tool built into GitLab for software development.

Virtualization

• 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.
• VirtualBox - General purpose software for running x86 virtual machines.
• Docker - Software platform to create, deploy and manage virtualized application containers on a common operating system, with an ecosystem of allied tools.

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.

Databases

• Redis - Native port of Redis for Windows.

Libraries

OS identification

• 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.