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The 'default-browser' npm package is a utility that allows developers to detect the default web browser set on a user's system. This can be particularly useful for applications that need to interact with the user's preferred browser or perform actions based on the browser type.
Detect Default Browser
This feature allows you to asynchronously detect the default browser on the user's system. The function `getDefaultBrowser` uses the `default-browser` package to fetch and log the name of the default browser.
const defaultBrowser = require('default-browser');
async function getDefaultBrowser() {
try {
const browser = await defaultBrowser();
console.log(`The default browser is: ${browser.name}`);
} catch (error) {
console.error('Error fetching the default browser:', error);
}
}
getDefaultBrowser();
The 'open' package is used to open files, URLs, or executables in their default programs, including web browsers. It is similar to 'default-browser' in that it interacts with default applications, but it extends beyond just fetching browser information to actually opening URLs or files.
The 'browser-launcher' package detects installed browsers and can launch them. It offers functionality similar to 'default-browser' by detecting browsers, but it also provides the capability to launch these browsers, which is not a feature of 'default-browser'.
Get the default browser (OS X)
npm install --save default-browser
var defaultBrowser = require('default-browser');
defaultBrowser();
//=> { name: 'Safari', id: 'com.apple.Safari' }
You can also use it as a CLI app by installing it globally:
npm install --global default-browser
default-browser
Which will for example output Safari
.
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The npm package default-browser receives a total of 3,949,115 weekly downloads. As such, default-browser popularity was classified as popular.
We found that default-browser demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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