There is a CLI that runs on Node and can be executed via command on the command line. In its code, some functionality is deactivated for Windows users by if (process.platform === 'win32') { process.exit(1); }. Now I want to disable this check, and allow Windows users to use the "hidden" functionality (usually the the required software is not installed on Windows, but I have a special setup where it is).Is there some way, to lie to this CLI and simulate that it is running on e.g. Linux or macOS?Of course I could fork the CLI, remove the check and work with my own version - but this would require repeating this process for each release. As this functionality should also be available to other users, I would have to publish the forked and modified CLI which could be a frequent source of confusion for its users (What about version numbers? Do I use the same command?) - 99.9% of the code will stay untouched.Could I maybe write my own CLI, that does something to "fake" the environment, then executes the installed, original CLI, and cleans up afterwards?I created an example package that works identical to the CLI, but only does exactly that part that I am investigating:https://github.com/janpio/nodejs-cli-nowinhttps://www.npmjs.com/package/nodejs-cli-nowinInstall via npm i -g nodejs-cli-nowin.
Submitted January 26, 2019 at 12:04AM by Sujan
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