Installations

npm install gix-opn

Developer Guide

BETA

Typescript

No

Module System

N/A

Min. Node Version

>=4

Node Version

10.15.0

NPM Version

6.6.0 Score

67.6

Supply Chain

94.3

Quality

75.1

Maintenance

100

Vulnerability

100

License

Pull Requests

Open

2

Total

122

Closed

52

Merged

68

Issues

Open

56

Total

231

Closed

175

Releases

46

v10.1.2

Updated on May 01, 2025

v10.1.1

Updated on Apr 15, 2025

v10.1.0

Updated on Mar 08, 2024

v10.0.4

Updated on Feb 26, 2024

v10.0.3

Updated on Jan 07, 2024

v10.0.2

Updated on Dec 28, 2023

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Languages

2

JavaScript

TypeScript

JavaScript (96.34%)

TypeScript (3.66%)

Developer

sindresorhus

Download Statistics

Total Downloads

1,351

Last Day

2

Last Week

2

Last Month

17

Last Year

174

GitHub Statistics

MIT License

3,295 Stars

203 Commits

253 Forks

29 Watchers

1 Branches

56 Contributors

Updated on Jun 27, 2025

Bundle Size

1.57 kB

Minified

789.00 B

Minified + Gzipped

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Maintainers

1

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Package Meta Information

Latest Version

5.4.4

Package Id

gix-opn@5.4.4

Unpacked Size

31.12 kB

Size

9.20 kB

File Count

5

NPM Version

6.6.0

Node Version

10.15.0

Total Downloads

Cumulative downloads

Total Downloads

1,351

Last Day

0%

2

Compared to previous day

Last Week

-71.4%

2

Compared to previous week

Last Month

-48.5%

17

Compared to previous month

Last Year

29.9%

174

Compared to previous year

Weekly Downloads

Monthly Downloads

Yearly Downloads

Dependencies

1

is-wsl

Dev Dependencies

2

ava xo

opn

A better node-open. Opens stuff like websites, files, executables. Cross-platform.

Why?

Actively maintained
Supports app arguments
Safer as it uses spawn instead of exec
Fixes most of the open node-open issues
Includes the latest xdg-open script for Linux

Install

$ npm install opn

Usage

1const opn = require('opn');
2
3// Opens the image in the default image viewer
4opn('unicorn.png').then(() => {
5	// image viewer closed
6});
7
8// Opens the url in the default browser
9opn('http://sindresorhus.com');
10
11// Specify the app to open in
12opn('http://sindresorhus.com', {app: 'firefox'});
13
14// Specify app arguments
15opn('http://sindresorhus.com', {app: ['google chrome', '--incognito']});

API

Uses the command open on macOS, start on Windows and xdg-open on other platforms.

opn(target, [options])

Returns a promise for the spawned child process. You would normally not need to use this for anything, but it can be useful if you'd like to attach custom event listeners or perform other operations directly on the spawned process.

target

Type: string

The thing you want to open. Can be a URL, file, or executable.

Opens in the default app for the file type. For example, URLs opens in your default browser.

options

Type: Object

wait

Type: boolean
Default: true

Wait for the opened app to exit before fulfilling the promise. If false it's fulfilled immediately when opening the app.

On Windows you have to explicitly specify an app for it to be able to wait.

app

Type: string Array

Specify the app to open the target with, or an array with the app and app arguments.

The app name is platform dependent. Don't hard code it in reusable modules. For example, Chrome is google chrome on macOS, google-chrome on Linux and chrome on Windows.

License

No vulnerabilities found.

10

Security-Policy

Determines if the project has published a security policy.

10

Dangerous-Workflow

Determines if the project's GitHub Action workflows avoid dangerous patterns.

10

Binary-Artifacts

Determines if the project has generated executable (binary) artifacts in the source repository.

10

Vulnerabilities

Determines if the project has open, known unfixed vulnerabilities.

10

License

Determines if the project has defined a license.

4

Maintained

Determines if the project is "actively maintained".

3

Code-Review

Determines if the project requires human code review before pull requests (aka merge requests) are merged.

0

Token-Permissions

Determines if the project's workflows follow the principle of least privilege.

0

Pinned-Dependencies

Determines if the project has declared and pinned the dependencies of its build process.

0

CII-Best-Practices

Determines if the project has an OpenSSF (formerly CII) Best Practices Badge.

0

Fuzzing

Determines if the project uses fuzzing.

0

Branch-Protection

Determines if the default and release branches are protected with GitHub's branch protection settings.

0

SAST

Determines if the project uses static code analysis.

Score

4.7

/10

Last Scanned on 2025-06-23

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gix-opn

Installations

Developer Guide

No

N/A

>=4

10.15.0

6.6.0

Score

Pull Requests

2

122

52

68

Issues

56

231

175

Releases

Languages

Developer

sindresorhus

Download Statistics

GitHub Statistics

Bundle Size

1.57 kB

789.00 B

Maintainers

Package Meta Information

Total Downloads

1,351

Weekly Downloads

Monthly Downloads

Yearly Downloads

Dependencies

Dev Dependencies

opn

Why?

Install

Usage

API

opn(target, [options])

target

options

wait

app

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License

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10

4

3

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4.7

/10