I always want to shoot myself in the head when looking at code like the following:
var url = "http://example.org/foo?bar=baz",
separator = url.indexOf('?') > -1 ? '&' : '?';
url += separator + encodeURIComponent("foo") + "=" + encodeURIComponent("bar");
I still can't believe javascript - the f**ing backbone-language of the web - doesn't offer an API for mutating URLs. Browsers (Firefox) don't expose the Location object (the structure behind window.location). Yes, one could think of decomposed IDL attributes as a native URL management library. But it relies on the DOM element <a>, it's slow and doesn't offer any convenienve at all.
How about a nice, 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.
// mutating URLs
URI("http://example.org/foo.html?hello=world")
.username("rodneyrehm")
// -> http://rodneyrehm@example.org/foo.html?hello=world
.username("")
// -> http://example.org/foo.html?hello=world
.directory("bar")
// -> http://example.org/bar/foo.html?hello=world
.suffix("xml")
// -> http://example.org/bar/foo.xml?hello=world
.query("")
// -> http://example.org/bar/foo.xml
.tld("com")
// -> http://example.com/bar/foo.xml
.query({ foo: "bar", hello: ["world", "mars"] });
// -> http://example.com/bar/foo.xml?foo=bar&hello=world&hello=mars
// cleaning things up
URI("?&foo=bar&&foo=bar&foo=baz&")
.normalizeQuery();
// -> ?foo=bar&foo=baz
// working with relative paths
URI("/foo/bar/baz.html")
.relativeTo("/foo/bar/world.html");
// -> ./baz.html
URI("/foo/bar/baz.html")
.relativeTo("/foo/bar/sub/world.html")
// -> ../baz.html
.absoluteTo("/foo/bar/sub/world.html");
// -> /foo/bar/baz.html
// URI Templates
URI.expand("/foo/{dir}/{file}", {
dir: "bar",
file: "world.html"
});
// -> /foo/bar/world.html
See the About Page and API Docs for more stuff.
npm install URIjs
var URI = require('URIjs');
URI("/foo/bar/baz.html")
.relativeTo("/foo/bar/sub/world.html")
// -> ../baz.html
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.com/URI.js/src/IPv6.js
// @code_url http://medialize.github.com/URI.js/src/punycode.js
// @code_url http://medialize.github.com/URI.js/src/SecondLevelDomains.js
// @code_url http://medialize.github.com/URI.js/src/URI.js
// @code_url http://medialize.github.com/URI.js/src/URITemplate.js
// ==/ClosureCompiler==
Docs where you get more info on parsing and working with URLs
If you don't like URI.js, you may like one of these:
URI.js is published under the MIT license and GPL v3.
.tld() - foot.se would detect t.se - (Issue #42).absoluteTo() to comply with RFC 3986 Section 5.2.2 - (Issue #41)location not being available in non-browser environments like node.js (Issue #45 grimen).segment()'s append operation - (Issue #39)base - (Issue #33 LarryBattle).segment() accessor - (Issue #34)URI.encode() to strict URI encoding according to RFC3986URI.encodeReserved() to exclude reserved characters (according to RFC3986) from being encodedURITemplate().absoluteTo() to join two relative paths properly - (Issue #29).clone() to copy an URI instance.directory() now returns empty string if there is no directory.absoluteTo() to join two relative paths properly - (Issue #29)javascript:, mailto:, ...) support.scheme() as alias of .protocol().userinfo() to comply with terminology of RFC 3986src/jquery.URI.jsURI.iso8859() and URI.unicode() to switch base charsets - (Issue #10, mortenn).iso8859() and .unicode() to convert an URI's escape encoding.hostname().subdomain() convenience accessorURI("http://example.org").query(true) - (Issue #6).equals() for URL comparison.pathname(), .directory(), .filename() and .suffix() according to RFC 3986 3.3+ according to application/x-www-form-urlencodedURI.buildQuery() to build duplicate key=value combinationsURI(string, string) constructor to conform with the specification.readable() for humanly readable representation of encoded URIsURI.withinString().normalizeProtocol() to lowercase protocols.normalizeHostname() to lowercase hostnames{foo: null} Algorithm for collecting URL parameters{foo: null, bar: ""} to "?foo&bar=" Algorithm for serializing URL parameters1.7.2 (August 28th 2012) ###
.tld() - foot.se would detect t.se - (Issue #42).absoluteTo() to comply with RFC 3986 Section 5.2.2 - (Issue #41)location not being available in non-browser environments like node.js (Issue #45 grimen)FAQs
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The npm package URIjs receives a total of 46,283 weekly downloads. As such, URIjs popularity was classified as popular.
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