@gentbajko/slopify 0.4.0 → 0.4.2

package/dist/edge/open-browser.js

@@ -1,5 +1,29 @@
 import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
-export function browserCommand(platform, url) {
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+// WSL reports itself as linux, so the browser it opens is one inside the distribution -
+// usually none at all - rather than the Windows browser the user is actually looking at.
+// The kernel string is the reliable marker: the environment variables below are absent
+// under `sudo` and in a login shell started by a service, but /proc/version always says.
+export function isWsl(platform, env = process.env, kernel = readKernel) {
+    if (platform !== "linux") {
+        return false;
+    }
+    if (env.WSL_DISTRO_NAME !== undefined || env.WSL_INTEROP !== undefined) {
+        return true;
+    }
+    // Guarded here rather than in the reader: whatever is injected, a browser that does not
+    // open is a nuisance and must not be able to fail the boot.
+    try {
+        return /microsoft|wsl/i.test(kernel());
+    }
+    catch {
+        return false;
+    }
+}
+function readKernel() {
+    return readFileSync("/proc/version", "utf8");
+}
+export function browserCommand(platform, url, wsl = false) {
     if (platform === "darwin") {
         return ["open", [url]];
     }
@@ -7,10 +31,16 @@ export function browserCommand(platform, url) {
         // `start` is a cmd builtin, and its first quoted argument is the window title.
         return ["cmd", ["/c", "start", "", url]];
     }
+    if (wsl) {
+        // The same builtin, reached across the interop boundary, so the URL opens in the
+        // Windows default browser. `.exe` is required from the linux side. cmd complains about
+        // the linux working directory on stderr, which is already discarded.
+        return ["cmd.exe", ["/c", "start", "", url]];
+    }
     return ["xdg-open", [url]];
 }
 export function openBrowser(url, warn) {
-    const [command, args] = browserCommand(process.platform, url);
+    const [command, args] = browserCommand(process.platform, url, isWsl(process.platform));
     const child = spawn(command, [...args], { stdio: "ignore", detached: true });
     // No browser is a nuisance, not a failure: the URL is already on the terminal.
     child.on("error", (error) => {