opener2

opener2

A clone of opener without the 'child_process' call included. Single function that returns an object with the platform dependent "open" command and the args which may be escaped depending on platform.

Why

The original opener called child_process.execFile which did not fit my use case. Other options like node-open and opn still create the process directly, which is awfully opinionated. Some other problems exist such as testing the library's dependencies instead of the library itself such as ensuring the default program opened or ensuring the process was actually created.

Usage

Pass the target "file" which you want to pass to your "open" call.

var childProcess = require('child_process'),
    opener = require('opener2'),
    sub = opener('http://google.com');

childProcess.spawn(sub.command, sub.args);

Pass the target "file" as argument to a given command.

var childProcess = require('child_process'),
    opener = require('opener2'),
    sub = opener('./file.txt', 'sublime');

childProcess.exec([sub.command].concat(sub.args).join(' '));