npm does this but unfortunately these's no cross-platform sure-fire way to
do it. I believe npm has specific things it does to open the url in a web
browser for each platform (on osx it invokes `open`, on linux
`x-www-browser`, etc.)

It may be a good idea for someone to extract that logic into a standalone
module...

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:17 PM, mscdex <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Feb 24, 8:15 pm, rauschma <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am aware that this functionality is not really a good fit for
> > Node.js as a server environment, but am finding that JavaScript shell
> > scripting is a great gateway drug for Node.js adoption. And for that
> > use case, opening URLs is tremendously useful.
>
> What kind of behavior/functionality are you envisioning here for node?
>
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