@photostructure/windows-registry

Fork of @vscode/windows-registry with prebuilt binaries.

The upstream package requires a C++ build toolchain at install time. This fork ships prebuilt NAPI binaries for win32-x64 and win32-arm64, so no build tools are needed on the target machine.

Native node module to access the Windows Registry.

Cross-platform support

This package installs cleanly on all platforms and architectures — no need for optionalDependencies. On non-Windows platforms, all functions return undefined (the same as when a registry key doesn't exist on Windows), so calling code doesn't need platform checks.

Installing

npm install @photostructure/windows-registry

Using

const { GetStringRegKey } = require('@photostructure/windows-registry');
console.log(GetStringRegKey('HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', 'SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion', 'ProgramFilesPath'));

Development

npm install
npm run build:native  # builds the prebuilt binary
npm test # builds if necessary, then runs tests

License

MIT

Upstream copyright Microsoft Corporation.