function checkIfOnline()

in packages/create-react-app/createReactApp.js [1054:1075]


function checkIfOnline(useYarn) {
  if (!useYarn) {
    // Don't ping the Yarn registry.
    // We'll just assume the best case.
    return Promise.resolve(true);
  }

  return new Promise(resolve => {
    dns.lookup('registry.yarnpkg.com', err => {
      let proxy;
      if (err != null && (proxy = getProxy())) {
        // If a proxy is defined, we likely can't resolve external hostnames.
        // Try to resolve the proxy name as an indication of a connection.
        dns.lookup(url.parse(proxy).hostname, proxyErr => {
          resolve(proxyErr == null);
        });
      } else {
        resolve(err == null);
      }
    });
  });
}