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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 46,035,538 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.
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