home-or-tmp

What is home-or-tmp?

The home-or-tmp npm package is a simple utility that provides a way to get the user's home directory or, if that's not available, a temporary directory. It is useful for applications that need to store or manage files in a user-specific or temporary location without having to worry about platform differences.

What are home-or-tmp's main functionalities?

Get user's home directory or temporary directory

This feature allows you to retrieve a path to the user's home directory or a fallback temporary directory. It abstracts away the differences between operating systems and the availability of environment variables.

const homeOrTmp = require('home-or-tmp');
console.log(homeOrTmp); // Outputs the user's home directory or a temporary directory if the home directory is not available.

Other packages similar to home-or-tmp

os-homedir

This package provides a way to get the user's home directory. It is similar to home-or-tmp but does not provide a fallback to a temporary directory if the home directory is not available.

user-home

Similar to os-homedir, user-home returns the path to the user's home directory. It does not offer a temporary directory fallback and is therefore less flexible than home-or-tmp when the home directory cannot be determined.

temp-dir

temp-dir is a simple package that provides the path to the system's temporary directory. It is similar to the temporary directory retrieval aspect of home-or-tmp but does not consider the user's home directory.

README

home-or-tmp

Get the user home directory with fallback to the system temp directory

Useful in cases where the home directory either isn't set or doesn't exist.

Install

$ npm install home-or-tmp

Usage

import homeOrTemp from 'home-or-tmp';

console.log(homeOrTemp);
//=> '/Users/sindresorhus'

// And if there is no home directory:

console.log(homeOrTemp);
//=> '/var/folders/m3/5574nnhn0yj488ccryqr7tc80000gn/T'

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