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@smithy/url-parser
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The 'url' package is a Node.js core module that provides utilities for URL resolution and parsing. It offers similar functionality to @smithy/url-parser but is more widely used and maintained as part of the Node.js standard library.
The 'whatwg-url' package is a full implementation of the WHATWG URL Standard. It provides a more comprehensive and standards-compliant way to parse and manipulate URLs compared to @smithy/url-parser.
The 'url-parse' package is a lightweight URL parser that works in both Node.js and browser environments. It offers similar functionality to @smithy/url-parser but with additional features like URL normalization and support for custom URL schemes.
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The npm package @smithy/url-parser receives a total of 25,742,337 weekly downloads. As such, @smithy/url-parser popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @smithy/url-parser demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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