Node.js to get/determine OS version
you could use the OS module like this:
var os = require('os');
os.platform(); // 'darwin'
os.release(); //'10.8.0'
and then map the release version to a specific version of Mac OS X.
Darwin to Mac OS X mappings can be found here
As mentioned above in AndyD's answer's comments, os.release()
returns the kernel version. If you want to get the same version number that a user sees in the "About this Mac" UI, you can read and parse out /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
, like so:
const plist = require('plist');
let versionInfo = plist.parseFileSync('/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist');
console.log(JSON.stringify(versionInfo));
https://github.com/kevinsawicki/node-plist