Check whether operating system CPU architecture is 64-bit or 32-bit (Supports browsers)
Check whether operating system CPU architecture is 64-bit or 32-bit
This package also works in the browser. It can be useful to serve the correct binary for download.
On Node.js, process.arch / os.arch() is generally not useful as it returns the CPU architecture for which the Node.js binary was compiled, not the actual system architecture.
npm install is64bit
import {is64bit} from 'is64bit';
// On ARM64 macOS
console.log(await is64bit());
//=> true
Returns a Promise<boolean> for whether the operating system CPU architecture is 64-bit.
Returns a boolean for whether the operating system CPU architecture is 64-bit.
Note: Prefer the async version for browser or cross-platform usage as it has a more reliable check.
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Check whether operating system CPU architecture is 64-bit or 32-bit (Supports browsers)
The npm package is64bit receives a total of 1,143,273 weekly downloads. As such, is64bit popularity was classified as popular.
We found that is64bit demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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