To get the name of the operating system platform, you can use the platform() method from the os module in Node.js.

/* Get OS platform in Node.js */

// import os module
const os = require("os");

// get platform name
const platformName = os.platform(); // linux

• The method returns the name of the operating system platform as a string.
• There are 8 possible values that the method can return, those are:
  • linux
  • win32
  • darwin
  • aix
  • freebsd
  • openbsd
  • sunos
  • android (Experimental value)

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