Can Node js redirect to a url and display it in another new browser?

Question

I want to use node js redirect to the url and display the url in a new browser, can that be happening?

Answer 1

The easiest way to do this cross browser is to use the "open" npm module This module allows you to open a new browser window and designate a url to go to

npm install open --save

then in your request when you want to open the new browser and load the url simply call

open( 'http://urltodirect.to', function (err) {
  if ( err ) throw err;    
});

That will open a new browser window and send the tab to http://urltodirect.to

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Node Js is a server side technology which can redirect the browsers request to a new location but cannot instructed the browser to open a new window.

You need to use client side javascript to ask the browser to open another window see here:

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_open.asp

or use target="_blank" within the link itself.