User Packages

Edit a string with the users preferred text editor using $VISUAL or $ENVIRONMENT

Get the system locale

Node.js 4 `os.homedir()` ponyfill

Bash-like tilde expansion for node.js. Expands a leading tilde in a file path to the user home directory, or `~+` to the cwd.

Resolve a directory that is either local, global or in the user's home directory.

Check if the process is running as root user, for example, one started with `sudo`

Get paths for storing things like data, config, cache, etc

Convert a tilde path to an absolute path: `~/dev` → `/Users/sindresorhus/dev`

Get the user home directory with fallback to the system temp directory

Get the path to the user home directory

Fastest, most accurate & effecient user agent string parser, uses Browserscope's research for parsing

Convert an absolute path to a tilde path: `/Users/sindresorhus/dev` → `~/dev`

Node.js 0.12 fs.access() & fs.accessSync() ponyfill

Parse a github URL into an object.

Get a GitHub username from an email address

Get home directory path on any platform

Use the system-ui font family in CSS

Strip the authentication part of a URL

Get metadata on the default editor or a specific editor

Get the fullname of the current user