What is ip-address?
The ip-address npm package provides utilities for handling, validating, and manipulating IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in JavaScript. It's useful for applications that need to work with IP addresses, whether it's for networking, security, or data analysis purposes.
What are ip-address's main functionalities?
Parsing and validating IP addresses
This feature allows you to parse and validate IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. The example demonstrates how to create IPv4 and IPv6 objects from string representations of the addresses.
const {IPv4, IPv6} = require('ip-address');
let ipv4 = new IPv4('192.168.0.1');
let ipv6 = new IPv6('2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334');
Checking if an IP address is in a subnet
This feature enables checking if an IP address belongs to a specific subnet. The code sample checks if the '192.168.1.1' address is within the '192.168.1.0/24' subnet.
const {IPv4} = require('ip-address');
let ipv4 = new IPv4('192.168.1.1');
console.log(ipv4.isInSubnet(new IPv4('192.168.1.0/24')));
Converting IP addresses to binary representation
This feature allows converting IP addresses to their binary representation. The example converts the IPv4 address '192.168.1.1' to its binary form.
const {IPv4} = require('ip-address');
let ipv4 = new IPv4('192.168.1.1');
console.log(ipv4.binaryZeroPad());
Other packages similar to ip-address
ip
The 'ip' package provides basic utilities for IP address manipulation, including subnet calculations and IP version checking. It's simpler and has fewer features compared to 'ip-address', which offers more comprehensive IPv6 support and address parsing capabilities.
cidr-js
The 'cidr-js' package is focused on CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) block calculations, such as checking if an IP address is within a CIDR block. While it overlaps with some functionalities of 'ip-address', it doesn't provide as extensive support for individual IP address manipulations or validations.
ip-address
ip-address
is a library for validating and manipulating IPv4 and IPv6
addresses in JavaScript.
Upgrading to 5.0
v4.Address
and v6.Address
have been renamed Address4
and Address6
Address4#toV6Group
has been renamed Address4#toGroup6
Address6#get6to4
has been renamed Address6#to6to4
Address6#six2four
has been renamed Address6#inspect6to4
Address6#teredo
has been renamed Address6#inspectTeredo
Address6#tov4
has been renamed Address6#to4
Address6#v4inv6
has been renamed Address6#to4in6
Deprecation warnings are in place for all of these methods.
Documentation
Documentation is available at ip-address.js.org.
Examples
var Address6 = require('ip-address').Address6;
var address = new Address6('2001:0:ce49:7601:e866:efff:62c3:fffe');
address.isValid();
var teredo = address.inspectTeredo();
teredo.client4;
Features
- Parsing of all IPv6 notations
- Parsing of IPv6 addresses and ports from URLs with
Address6.fromURL(url)
- Validity checking
- Decoding of the Teredo
information
in an address
- Whether one address is a valid subnet of another
- What special properties a given address has (multicast prefix, unique
local address prefix, etc.)
- Number of subnets of a certain size in a given address
- Display methods
- Hex, binary, and decimal
- Canonical form
- Correct form
- IPv4-compatible (i.e.
::ffff:192.168.0.1
)
- Works in node and the browser (with browserify)
- ~1,600 test cases
Used by