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platform-tool

lekoder30.2.2

Provides various platform-specific information to application, helping cross-system portability

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node-platform-tool

Introduction

Node-platform is a little library providing platform-specific information to your application. Different platforms have different environments and this library aims to provide cohesive interface to common resources, such as data or temporary directories, without need to track platform-specific system requirements.

Quick start

npm install platform-tool

Then

var platform = require('platform-tool');

API

  • platform.homeDir() returns current users home directory.
  • platform.tmpDir() returns system temporary directory. This is convenience alias to os.tmpdir()
  • platform.appDir(name) returns directory that can be used as data directory for application.

Convinience aliases

All provided methods have convenience lowercase aliases.