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Install using npm or yarn:
npm i ufo
# or
yarn add ufo
Import:
// CommonJS
const { normalizeURL, joinURL } = require('ufo')
// ESM
import { normalizeURL, joinURL } from 'ufo'
Notice: You may need to transpile package and add URL polyfill for legacy environments
normalizeURL
// Result: test?query=123%20123#hash,%20test
normalizeURL('test?query=123 123#hash, test')
// Result: http://localhost:3000/
normalizeURL('http://localhost:3000')
joinURL
// Result: a/b/c
joinURL('a', '/b', '/c')
resolveURL
// Result: http://foo.com/foo/bar/baz?test=123#token
joinURL('http://foo.com/foo?test=123#token', 'bar', 'baz')
withQuery
// Result: /foo?page=a&token=secret
withQuery('/foo?page=a', { token: 'secret' })
getQuery
// Result: { test: '123', unicode: '好' }
getQuery('http://foo.com/foo?test=123&unicode=%E5%A5%BD')
$URL
Implementing URL interface with some improvements:
protocol
, host
, auth
, pathname
, query
, hash
)withTrailingSlash
Ensures url ends with a trailing slash
// Result: /foo/
withTrailingSlash('/foo')
withoutTrailingSlash
Ensures url does not ends with a trailing slash
// Result: /foo
withoutTrailingSlash('/foo/')
cleanDoubleSlashes
Ensures url does not have double slash (except for protocol)
// Result: /foo/bar/
cleanDoubleSlashes('//foo//bar//')
// Result: http://example.com/analyze/http://localhost:3000/
cleanDoubleSlashes('http://example.com/analyze//http://localhost:3000//')
Special thanks to Eduardo San Martin Morote (posva) for encoding utlities
FAQs
URL utils for humans
The npm package @nuxt/ufo receives a total of 5,749 weekly downloads. As such, @nuxt/ufo popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @nuxt/ufo demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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