How to launch Edge with Open package on Windows 10

Question

I am using the Open package to launch URLs cross-browser. There doesn't seem to be great documentation on how to launch with specific browsers on each OS.

I've found that you can do this for Mac

const open = require('open');

await open('https://www.github.com', { app: 'microsoft edge' });

Meaning that the keyword for Mac is microsoft edge .

I'm trying to figure out the keyword for Windows. I've tried microsoft edge

I've also tried microsoft-edge

await open('https://www.github.com', { app: 'microsoft-edge' });

and edge

await open('https://www.github.com', { app: 'edge' });

But none of those seem to work.

Does anyone know the keyword for Windows?

Answer 1

For the Windows platform, I found that it needs to be exe file name of the app that you want to launch.

Examples for opening with different browsers on different platforms #177

Another information I found in the docs that for Windows it uses the Start command. So you can also try to test with it.

API

Answer 2

Thanks to Deepak-MSFT for pointing me in the right direction. The keyword has to be the name of the.exe file. In my case the name was msedge , so this is the code that worked for me on Windows 10

await open('https://www.github.com', { app: 'msedge' });