Node.js os.platform() Method

The os.platform() method is an inbuilt application programming interface of the os module which is used to get the Operating system platform.

Syntax:

os.platform()

Parameters: This method does not accept any parameters.

Return Value: This method returns a string that represents the operating system platform. The returned values can be one of these ‘aix’, ‘android’, ‘darwin’, ‘freebsd’, ‘linux’, ‘openbsd’, ‘sunos’, and ‘win32’. This value is set at compile time.

Example 1: The below example illustrates the use of the os.platform() method in Node.js:

javascript

// Node.js program to demonstrate the   
// os.platform() method
 
// Require os module
const os = require('os');
 
// Printing os.platform() value
console.log(os.platform());

Output:

linux

Example 2: The below example illustrates the use of the os.platform() method in Node.js:

javascript

// Node.js program to demonstrate the   
// os.platform() method
console.log(process.platform);

Output:

linux

Example 3: The below example illustrates the use of os.platform() method in Node.js:

javascript

// Node.js program to demonstrate the   
// os.platform() method
 
// Require os module
const os = require('os');
 
// Printing os.platform() value
const platform = os.platform();
 
switch (platform) {
    case 'aix': console.log("IBM AIX platform");
        break;
    case 'android': console.log("Android platform");
        break;
    case 'darwin': console.log("Darwin platform(MacOS, IOS etc)");
        break;
    case 'freebsd': console.log("FreeBSD Platform");
        break;
    case 'linux': console.log("Linux Platform");
        break;
    case 'openbsd': console.log("OpenBSD platform");
        break;
    case 'sunos': console.log("SunOS platform");
        break;
    case 'win32': console.log("windows platform");
        break;
    default: console.log("unknown platform");
}