URI.js
IMPORTANT: You may not need URI.js anymore! Modern browsers provide the URL and URLSearchParams interfaces.
NOTE: The npm package name changed to urijs
I always want to shoot myself in the head when looking at code like the following:
var url = "http://example.org/foo?bar=baz";
var separator = url.indexOf('?') > -1 ? '&' : '?';
url += separator + encodeURIComponent("foo") + "=" + encodeURIComponent("bar");
Things are looking up with URL and the URL spec but until we can safely rely on that API, have a look at URI.js for a clean and simple API for mutating URIs:
var url = new URI("http://example.org/foo?bar=baz");
url.addQuery("foo", "bar");
URI.js is here to help with that.
API Example
URI("http://example.org/foo.html?hello=world")
.username("rodneyrehm")
.username("")
.directory("bar")
.suffix("xml")
.query("")
.tld("com")
.query({ foo: "bar", hello: ["world", "mars"] });
URI("?&foo=bar&&foo=bar&foo=baz&")
.normalizeQuery();
URI("/foo/bar/baz.html")
.relativeTo("/foo/bar/world.html");
URI("/foo/bar/baz.html")
.relativeTo("/foo/bar/sub/world.html")
.absoluteTo("/foo/bar/sub/world.html");
URI.expand("/foo/{dir}/{file}", {
dir: "bar",
file: "world.html"
});
See the About Page and API Docs for more stuff.
Using URI.js
URI.js (without plugins) has a gzipped weight of about 7KB - if you include all extensions you end up at about 13KB. So unless you need second level domain support and use URI templates, we suggest you don't include them in your build. If you don't need a full featured URI mangler, it may be worth looking into the much smaller parser-only alternatives listed below.
URI.js is available through npm, bower, bowercdn, cdnjs and manually from the build page:
bower install uri.js
npm install urijs
Browser
I guess you'll manage to use the build tool or follow the instructions below to combine and minify the various files into URI.min.js - and I'm fairly certain you know how to <script src=".../URI.min.js"></script>
that sucker, too.
Node.js and NPM
Install with npm install urijs
or add "urijs"
to the dependencies in your package.json
.
var URI = require('urijs');
var URITemplate = require('urijs/src/URITemplate');
URI("/foo/bar/baz.html")
.relativeTo("/foo/bar/sub/world.html")
RequireJS
Clone the URI.js repository or use a package manager to get URI.js into your project.
require.config({
paths: {
urijs: 'where-you-put-uri.js/src'
}
});
require(['urijs/URI'], function(URI) {
console.log("URI.js and dependencies: ", URI("//amazon.co.uk").is('sld') ? 'loaded' : 'failed');
});
require(['urijs/URITemplate'], function(URITemplate) {
console.log("URITemplate.js and dependencies: ", URITemplate._cache ? 'loaded' : 'failed');
});
Minify
See the build tool or use Google Closure Compiler:
// ==ClosureCompiler==
// @compilation_level SIMPLE_OPTIMIZATIONS
// @output_file_name URI.min.js
// @code_url http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/src/IPv6.js
// @code_url http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/src/punycode.js
// @code_url http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/src/SecondLevelDomains.js
// @code_url http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/src/URI.js
// @code_url http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/src/URITemplate.js
// ==/ClosureCompiler==
Resources
Documents specifying how URLs work:
Informal stuff
How other environments do things
Discussion on Hacker News
Forks / Code-borrow
- node-dom-urls passy's partial implementation of the W3C URL Spec Draft for Node
- urlutils cofounders'
window.URL
constructor for Node
Alternatives
If you don't like URI.js, you may like one of the following libraries. (If yours is not listed, drop me a line…)
Polyfill
URL Manipulation
URL Parsers
URI Template
Various
Authors
Contains Code From
License
URI.js is published under the MIT license. Until version 1.13.2 URI.js was also published under the GPL v3 license - but as this dual-licensing causes more questions than helps anyone, it was dropped with version 1.14.0.
Changelog
moved to Changelog