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

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.

You can redirect to a new URL with Node as part of a server request if you use the Express framework's redirect method.

However you can't display the URL in a new browser with Node, as this is front-end work. You could use target=_blank within your HTML link in order to do this.

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!