18 Cross-platform considerations

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18.1 File system paths

Material elsewhere in this book:

• §7.2.1 “Path segments, path separators, path delimiters”
• §7.9 “Using the same paths on different platforms”
• §7.3 “Getting the paths of standard directories via module 'node:os'”

18.2 Handling line terminators

See §8.3 “Handling line terminators across platforms”.

18.3 Detecting the current platform

• process.platform contains a string identifying the current platform. Possible values are:
  • 'aix'
  • 'darwin'
  • 'freebsd'
  • 'linux'
  • 'openbsd'
  • 'sunos'
  • 'win32'
• Module 'node:os' contains more platform-related information (processor architecture, operating system release, etc.).

18.4 Running project-related tasks on all platforms

See §15 “Running cross-platform tasks via npm package scripts”.