[!CAUTION] Uses reg.exe, WINDOWS ONLY!

📃 Table of Contents

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

🤖 Features

• 🗝 Reads Windows registry from the Packages key
• 📋 Retrieves a full list of installed Windows packages
• 🔍 Case‑insensitive search within package names
• ✅ Checks presence of one or more package names
• 📊 Returns Boolean results for each queried package
• 🛡 Throws error if not running on the Windows OS
• 🧹 Trims and normalises data for reliable matching

🕵🏼 Usage

Install it by executing any of the following, depending on your preferred package manager:

pnpm add @igorskyflyer/windows-packages

yarn add @igorskyflyer/windows-packages

npm i @igorskyflyer/windows-packages

🤹🏼 API

get(): string[]

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

import { get } from '@igorskyflyer/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 '@igorskyflyer/windows-packages'

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

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

🗒️ Examples

example.ts

import { get } from '@igorskyflyer/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

📝 Changelog

📑 The changelog is available here, CHANGELOG.md.

🪪 License

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

💖 Support

🧬 Related

@igorskyflyer/odin

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

@igorskyflyer/str-is-in

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

@igorskyflyer/strip-html

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

@igorskyflyer/regkeys

📚 An NPM package for fetching Windows registry keys. 🗝

@igorskyflyer/jmap

🕶️ Reads a JSON file into a Map. 🌻

👨🏻‍💻 Author

Created by Igor Dimitrijević (@igorskyflyer).