Outputting the username in Electron

Question

I would really know how to output the username in Electron applications. So something like that:

const os = require('os')
const username = // the code or the username so that it can be displayed
document.write("The username is: " + username)

Is that possible?

Possible duplicate of [Find OS username in NodeJS](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40424298/find-os-username-in-nodejs) — Serge K., Sep 20 '17 at 07:55

score 14 · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-20T13:08:01.843

14

Out of the box, the username is available through:

const os = require ('os');
const username = os.userInfo ().username;

Also (at least on Mac OS X and Linux) it can be obtained through the LOGNAME or USER environment variables:

username = process.env["LOGNAME"];
// or
username = process.env["USER"];

edited Sep 20 '17 at 13:08

answered Sep 20 '17 at 09:41

In windows this will return the first name of the user not the username. – charsi Sep 20 '17 at 23:05

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 20 '17 at 07:58

2

You can use the username node module ---

const username = require('username');

username().then(username => {
    console.log(username);
    //=> 'sindresorhus' 
});

answered Sep 20 '17 at 07:58

charsi

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 19 '19 at 12:28

0

sync() method returns the same but without promises

document.write(username.sync());

edited Sep 19 '19 at 12:28

Lyzard Kyng

answered Sep 19 '19 at 11:42

Ab dul Salam

3 Answers3