Open a file or url in the user's preferred application.

var open = require("open");
open("http://www.google.com/");

open takes an optional argument specifying the program to be used to open the file or URL.

open("http://www.google.com/", "firefox");

npm install open

• on win32 uses start
• on darwin uses open
• otherwise uses the xdg-open script from freedesktop.org

The same care should be taken when calling open as if you were calling child_process.exec directly. If it is an executable it will run in a new shell.