The ospath npm package provides a simple and consistent way to work with operating system-specific path operations. It abstracts away the differences between Windows and POSIX (Unix-like) systems, allowing developers to write code that works seamlessly across different environments. This package is particularly useful for file path manipulation, construction, and normalization.
Home Directory
Retrieves the current user's home directory in a cross-platform way.
const ospath = require('ospath');
console.log(ospath.home());Temporary Directory
Provides the path to the system's temporary directory, which is useful for storing temporary files.
const ospath = require('ospath');
console.log(ospath.tmp());Data Directory
Gets the path to the system's data directory where applications can store application-specific data.
const ospath = require('ospath');
console.log(ospath.data());The 'path' module is a core Node.js module that provides utilities for working with file and directory paths. It is similar to ospath in that it helps with path manipulation, but it does not automatically handle OS-specific differences.
A JavaScript component that provides operating specific path values.
npm i --save ospath
Returns the directory where an application should store its data directory.
%APPDATA%~/Library/Application Support$XDG_CONFIG_HOME or ~/.configReturns the users desktop directory. On every OS, this is just the home()
dir and Desktop.
Returns the user's home directory.
%USERPROFILE%$HOMEReturns a temporary directory. Could also use require('os').tmpdir().
%TEMP%/tmpMIT
FAQs
Operating system specific paths.
The npm package ospath receives a total of 3,349,092 weekly downloads. As such, ospath popularity was classified as popular.
We found that ospath 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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