Windows Packages

💻 A Node.js module for reading the Packages registry key on Windows 10+.
Useful for retrieving Windows 10+ installed Store applications. 📦

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📃 Table of contents

• Usage
• API
• Examples
• Changelog
• License
• Related
• Author

🕵🏼 Usage

Warning

Uses reg.exe, WINDOWS ONLY!!

Install it by executing:

npm i "@igor.dvlpr/windows-packages"

🤹🏼 API

get(): string[]

Returns an array of sub-keys located in the WindowsPackages key.

import { get } from '@igor.dvlpr/windows-packages'

const packages: string[] = get()

console.log(packages) // ['Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_44.18362.267.0...', 'Microsoft.Microsoft3DViewer_7.1908.9012.0...',...]

// names shortened for the sake of brevity

has(list: string[]): boolean[]

Returns an array of Booleans indicating whether the entries of the parameter list are installed on the system.

import { has } from '@igor.dvlpr/windows-packages'

const hasPackages: boolean[] = has(['edge', 'foobar', 'mspaint'])

console.log(hasPackages) // [true, false, true]

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✨ Examples

example.ts

import { get } from '@igor.dvlpr/windows-packages'

const packages: string[] = get()

console.log(packages) // ['Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_44.18362.267.0...', 'Microsoft.Microsoft3DViewer_7.1908.9012.0...',...]

// names shortened for the sake of brevity

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📝 Changelog

📑 Changelog is available here: CHANGELOG.md.

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🪪 License

Licensed under the MIT license which is available here, MIT license.

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🧬 Related

@igor.dvlpr/odin

🔱 Odin is an Object wrapper that allows you to create objects and set their attributes - all at once! 🔺

@igor.dvlpr/str-is-in

🧵 Provides ways of checking whether a String is present in an Array of Strings using custom Comparators. 🔍

@igor.dvlpr/strip-html

🥞 Removes HTML code from the given string. Can even extract text-only from the given an HTML string. ✨

@igor.dvlpr/regkeys

📚 An NPM package for fetching Windows registry keys. 🗝

@igor.dvlpr/jmap

🕶️ Reads a JSON file into a Map. 🌻

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👨🏻‍💻 Author

Created by Igor Dimitrijević (@igorskyflyer).