How to write cross-platform Node.js code.

Why you should care: according to the 2018 Node.js user survey, 24% of Node.js developers use Windows locally and 41% use Mac. In production 85% use Linux and 1% use BSD.

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Table of contents

Summary

🤖 Development environment

• Node setup
• Core utilities
• Testing

📝 File encoding

• Character encoding
• Newlines
• EOF and BOM

📂 Filesystem

• Directory locations
• File paths
• Filenames
• Symlinks
• File metadata

💻 Terminal

• Shell
• File execution
• Package binaries
• Environment variables

🔒 Security

• Permissions
• Users

📡 Networking / IPC

• Networking
• Processes
• Signals
• Errors

🎛️ System

• OS identification
• System configuration
• Hardware
• Time

See also

• cross-platform-terminal-characters:
  All the characters that work on most terminals
• https://github.com/bcoe/awesome-cross-platform-nodejs
• https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejs-guidelines
• https://shapeshed.com/writing-cross-platform-node/

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