powershell-utils provides Node.js helpers for running PowerShell commands on Windows. It includes functions to get the PowerShell executable path, check whether PowerShell is accessible, execute commands (async or sync), and build or encode safe PowerShell arguments (for use with child_process).
Project status
- Actively maintained, with the last upstream push on 2026-02-13 and a newer update (v0.2.0) published on 2026-01-25.
- Update cadence looks roughly every 1 to 3 months in recent activity (v0.1.0 on 2025-11-15, v0.2.0 on 2026-01-25, plus another upstream push in mid-February 2026).
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Recent updates
v0.2.0
v0.2.0 adds synchronous PowerShell execution via a new executePowerShellSync export. The implementation also refactors argument construction and introduces a new helper, executePowerShell.createArguments, to build the full PowerShell argument array.
Featuresv0.1.0
Release v0.1.0 was published on 2025-11-15. The provided release notes contain only a placeholder emoji and do not describe any features, fixes, or changes, so there is no actionable information to assess developer impact.