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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.

Summary

• Node setup
• Core utilities
• Testing

• Character encoding
• Newlines
• EOF and BOM

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

• Shell
• File execution
• Package binaries
• Environment variables

• Permissions
• Users

• Networking
• Processes
• Signals
• Errors

• OS identification
• System configuration
• Hardware
• Time

• 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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