macos-manage-apps
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Launch and terminate apps on macOS
If you're on macOS 10.14.3 or earlier, you need to download the Swift runtime support libraries.
$ npm install macos-manage-apps
const {launchApp, terminateApp} = require('macos-manage-apps');
(async () => {
await launchApp('com.sindresorhus.Dato');
await terminateApp('com.sindresorhus.Dato');
})();
launchApp(bundleId: string): Promise<true>Tries to launch the app with the given bundle identifier. It will resolve if it succeeds, and reject with an error otherwise.
bundleIdThe bundle identifier of the app.
terminateApp(bundleId: string): Promise<true>Tries to terminate the app with the given bundle identifier. It will resolve if it succeeds, and reject with an error otherwise.
bundleIdThe bundle identifier of the app.
isAppRunning(bundleId: string): Promise<true>Check whether the app with the given bundle identifier is running. It will resolve with true if it's running and false otherwise.
bundleIdThe bundle identifier of the app.
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Launch and terminate apps on macOS
The npm package macos-manage-apps receives a total of 25 weekly downloads. As such, macos-manage-apps popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that macos-manage-apps 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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