Get running application list, cross-platform

[egoist]

For example on macOS you can achieve this by running applescript:

osascript -e 'tell application"System Events" to get name of (processes where background only is false)'

It would be ideal that we can have a cross-platform solution for this:

const appList = require('app-list')

appList().then(list => {
  // ['iTerm2', 'Telegram', 'Sublime Text', ...]
})

And maybe more info about the apps too, like last used time

[sindresorhus]

What do you need it for?

[egoist]

@sindresorhus for such feature in Discord:

[hemanth]

We could enhance process-list #2 to support osx and it should suffice this use case.

[yinghang]

What about this neekey/ps?

[kevva]

We already have https://github.com/sindresorhus/ps-list. I think @egoist only want to get apps that are running.

[nektro]

While I'm sure it's possible, it shouldn't be.

[Richienb]

@egoist I've confirmed it's possible to do this. I'll start working on the module.

[Richienb]

I've got some basic logic down. I'll test this a bit before releasing:
https://github.com/Richienb/winds

[Richienb]

@egoist I've released winds with a passing build which resolves this issue.

@sindresorhus You can close this issue now.