OS information

If you need to retrieve information about the Operating System, like the version, the release, the platform, the release, you can use some functions implemented by the os module.

The Operating System version: os.version()

The os module has the version() method to return the version of the Operating System in use.

import { version } from 'os'
const version = version()
console.log(v)

The version() method returns a string with the full name of the Operating System version, like this:

Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Wed Aug 10 14:28:23 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.141.5~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000

The Operating System platform: os.platform()

The os module has the platform() function to return the name of the platform of the Operating System in use.

import { platform } from 'os'
const platform = platform()
console.log(platform)

The platform() method returns a string with the name of the platform Operating System version, like for example: aix, android, darwin, freebsd,linux, openbsd, sunos, or win32. If you are running Node on a Mac OS machine, you will obtain darwin.