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check-absolute-url
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check-absolute-url.jsValidate absolute URLs in strings and arrays
npm i check-absolute-url
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// ES6
import checkAbsoluteUrl from "check-absolute-url";
// commonjs
const checkAbsoluteUrl = require("check-absolute-url");
const checked = checkAbsoluteUrl('https://www.example.com/path');
console.log(checked); // True
const urls = [
'http://localhost:3000',
'ftp://ftp.example.com/file.zip',
'/path',
'example.com',
'C:\\path\\to\\file.txt'
];
const checked = checkAbsoluteUrl(urls);
console.log(checked); // [true, true, false, false, false]
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Validate absolute URLs in strings and arrays
We found that check-absolute-url demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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