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os-name

Get the name of the current operating system. Example: macOS Sierra

6.1.0

145

MIT

JavaScript

4.75 kB

953,871,187 4.3

Installations

npm install os-name

Developer Guide

BETA

Typescript

Yes

Module System

ESM

Min. Node Version

>=18

Node Version

20.19.1

NPM Version

10.9.2 Score

97.6

Supply Chain

79.7

Quality

83.5

Maintenance

100

Vulnerability

100

License

Pull Requests

Open

0

Total

11

Closed

3

Merged

8

Issues

Open

1

Total

9

Closed

8

Releases

v6.1.0

Updated on May 22, 2025

v6.0.0

Updated on Nov 24, 2023

v5.1.0

Updated on Dec 07, 2022

v5.0.1

Updated on Nov 11, 2021

v5.0.0

Updated on Aug 12, 2021

v4.0.1

Updated on Jul 28, 2021

View All 9 releases

Languages

JavaScript

TypeScript

JavaScript (86.07%)

TypeScript (13.93%)

Developer

sindresorhus

Download Statistics

Total Downloads

953,871,187

Last Day

261,480

Last Week

3,673,935

Last Month

14,555,540

Last Year

149,259,117

GitHub Statistics

MIT License

145 Stars

52 Commits

15 Forks

6 Watchers

1 Branches

10 Contributors

Updated on May 22, 2025

Sponsor this package

https://github.com/sponsors/sindresorhus

Maintainers

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Package Meta Information

Latest Version

6.1.0

Package Id

os-name@6.1.0

Unpacked Size

4.75 kB

Size

2.13 kB

File Count

NPM Version

10.9.2

Node Version

20.19.1

Published on

May 22, 2025

Total Downloads

Cumulative downloads

Total Downloads

953,871,187

Last Day

26.8%

261,480

Compared to previous day

Last Week

0.2%

3,673,935

Compared to previous week

Last Month

4.1%

14,555,540

Compared to previous month

Last Year

-9%

149,259,117

Compared to previous year

Weekly Downloads

Monthly Downloads

Yearly Downloads

Dependencies

macos-release windows-release

Dev Dependencies

@types/node ava tsd xo

os-name

Get the name of the current operating system
Example: macOS Sierra

Useful for analytics and debugging.

Install

1npm install os-name

Usage

1import os from 'node:os';
2import osName from 'os-name';
3
4// On a macOS Sierra system
5
6osName();
7//=> 'macOS Sierra'
8
9osName(os.platform(), os.release());
10//=> 'macOS Sierra'
11
12osName('darwin', '14.0.0');
13//=> 'OS X Yosemite'
14
15osName('linux', '3.13.0-24-generic');
16//=> 'Linux 3.13'
17
18osName('win32', '6.3.9600');
19//=> 'Windows 8.1'

API

osName(platform?, release?)

By default, the name of the current operating system is returned.

You can optionally supply a custom os.platform() and os.release().

Check out getos if you need the Linux distribution name.

os-name-cli - CLI for this module

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

4.3

/10

Last Scanned on 2025-05-19

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Installations

Developer Guide

Yes

ESM

>=18

20.19.1

10.9.2

Score

Pull Requests

0

11

3

8

Issues

1

9

8

Releases

Languages

Developer

sindresorhus

Download Statistics

GitHub Statistics

Sponsor this package

Maintainers

Package Meta Information

Total Downloads

953,871,187

Weekly Downloads

Monthly Downloads

Yearly Downloads

Dependencies

Dev Dependencies

os-name

Install

Usage

API

osName(platform?, release?)

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