
Security News
GitHub Actions Pricing Whiplash: Self-Hosted Actions Billing Change Postponed
GitHub postponed a new billing model for self-hosted Actions after developer pushback, but moved forward with hosted runner price cuts on January 1.
path-is-absolute
Advanced tools
This package is no longer relevant as Node.js 0.12 is unmaintained.
Node.js 0.12
path.isAbsolute()ponyfill
$ npm install --save path-is-absolute
const pathIsAbsolute = require('path-is-absolute');
// Running on Linux
pathIsAbsolute('/home/foo');
//=> true
pathIsAbsolute('C:/Users/foo');
//=> false
// Running on Windows
pathIsAbsolute('C:/Users/foo');
//=> true
pathIsAbsolute('/home/foo');
//=> false
// Running on any OS
pathIsAbsolute.posix('/home/foo');
//=> true
pathIsAbsolute.posix('C:/Users/foo');
//=> false
pathIsAbsolute.win32('C:/Users/foo');
//=> true
pathIsAbsolute.win32('/home/foo');
//=> false
See the path.isAbsolute() docs.
POSIX specific version.
Windows specific version.
MIT © Sindre Sorhus
Similar to path-is-absolute, is-absolute checks if a given path is absolute. It provides a more comprehensive API with additional checks and utilities around path analysis compared to path-is-absolute.
While is-relative serves the opposite purpose of path-is-absolute, it is relevant in the context of path analysis. It checks if a path is relative, which can be useful in conjunction with path-is-absolute for applications that need to validate paths extensively.
FAQs
Node.js 0.12 path.isAbsolute() ponyfill
The npm package path-is-absolute receives a total of 28,919,330 weekly downloads. As such, path-is-absolute popularity was classified as popular.
We found that path-is-absolute 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.
Did you know?

Socket for GitHub automatically highlights issues in each pull request and monitors the health of all your open source dependencies. Discover the contents of your packages and block harmful activity before you install or update your dependencies.

Security News
GitHub postponed a new billing model for self-hosted Actions after developer pushback, but moved forward with hosted runner price cuts on January 1.

Research
Destructive malware is rising across open source registries, using delays and kill switches to wipe code, break builds, and disrupt CI/CD.

Security News
Socket CTO Ahmad Nassri shares practical AI coding techniques, tools, and team workflows, plus what still feels noisy and why shipping remains human-led.