What is pathe?
The 'pathe' npm package is a utility library for handling and manipulating file paths in Node.js. It provides a variety of functions to work with file paths in a more convenient and readable way.
What are pathe's main functionalities?
Join Paths
The 'join' function concatenates multiple path segments into a single path, normalizing the resulting path.
const { join } = require('pathe');
const fullPath = join('/foo', 'bar', 'baz/asdf', 'quux', '..');
console.log(fullPath); // '/foo/bar/baz/asdf'
Resolve Paths
The 'resolve' function resolves a sequence of paths or path segments into an absolute path.
const { resolve } = require('pathe');
const resolvedPath = resolve('foo/bar', '/tmp/file/', '..', 'a/../subfile');
console.log(resolvedPath); // '/tmp/subfile'
Normalize Paths
The 'normalize' function normalizes the given path, resolving '..' and '.' segments.
const { normalize } = require('pathe');
const normalizedPath = normalize('/foo/bar//baz/asdf/quux/..');
console.log(normalizedPath); // '/foo/bar/baz/asdf'
Get Directory Name
The 'dirname' function returns the directory name of a path.
const { dirname } = require('pathe');
const dirName = dirname('/foo/bar/baz/asdf/quux');
console.log(dirName); // '/foo/bar/baz/asdf'
Get Base Name
The 'basename' function returns the last portion of a path, typically the file name.
const { basename } = require('pathe');
const baseName = basename('/foo/bar/baz/asdf/quux.html');
console.log(baseName); // 'quux.html'
Get Extension Name
The 'extname' function returns the extension of the path, from the last occurrence of the '.' character to end of string in the last portion of the path.
const { extname } = require('pathe');
const extName = extname('index.html');
console.log(extName); // '.html'
Other packages similar to pathe
path
The 'path' module is a built-in Node.js module that provides utilities for working with file and directory paths. It offers similar functionalities to 'pathe' such as joining, resolving, normalizing paths, and extracting directory names, base names, and extensions. 'pathe' can be seen as an enhanced version of the 'path' module with additional features and improvements.
upath
The 'upath' package is a utility for working with file paths across different operating systems. It ensures consistent path handling regardless of the platform. 'upath' offers similar functionalities to 'pathe' but focuses more on cross-platform compatibility.
path-to-regexp
The 'path-to-regexp' package is used to convert paths to regular expressions, which can be useful for routing and matching URL patterns. While it provides some path manipulation capabilities, its primary focus is on pattern matching, making it somewhat different from 'pathe'.
🛣️ pathe
Universal filesystem path utils
❓ Why
For historical reasons, windows followed MS-DOS and using backslash for separating paths rather than slash used for macOS, Linux, and other Posix operating systems. Nowadays, Windows supports both Slash and Backslash for paths. Node.js's built in path
module in the default operation of the path module varies based on the operating system on which a Node.js application is running. Specifically, when running on a Windows operating system, the path module will assume that Windows-style paths are being used. This makes inconsistent code behavior between Windows and POSIX.
Compared to popular upath, pathe is providing identical exports of Node.js with normalization on all operations and written in modern ESM/Typescript and has no dependency on Node.js!
This package is a drop-in replacement of the Node.js's path module module and ensures paths are normalized with slash /
and work in environments including Node.js.
💿 Usage
Install using npm or yarn:
npm i pathe
yarn add pathe
pnpm i pathe
Import:
import { resolve } from 'pathe'
const { resolve } = require('pathe')
Read more about path utils from Node.js documentation and rest assured behavior is ALWAYS like POSIX regardless of your input paths format and running platform!
Pathe exports some extra utilities that do not exist in standard Node.js path module.
In order to use them, you can import from pathe/utils
subpath:
import { filename, normalizeAliases, resolveAlias } from 'pathe/utils'
License
MIT. Made with 💖
Some code used from Node.js project. See LICENSE.