querystring

What is querystring?

The querystring npm package is used for parsing and formatting URL query strings. It provides utilities for working with the query string of a URL, such as parsing a query string into an object, stringifying an object into a query string, and handling escape and unescape of URL query strings.

What are querystring's main functionalities?

Parsing a query string

This feature is used to parse a URL query string into an object where each key-value pair is represented as a property.

const querystring = require('querystring');
const parsed = querystring.parse('foo=bar&abc=xyz&abc=123');

Stringifying an object

This feature converts an object into a URL query string, with proper formatting and escaping.

const querystring = require('querystring');
const stringified = querystring.stringify({ foo: 'bar', baz: ['qux', 'quux'], corge: '' });

Escaping and unescaping

These functions are used to manually escape and unescape query string values.

const querystring = require('querystring');
const escaped = querystring.escape('[e-mail]');
const unescaped = querystring.unescape('foo%40bar.com');

Other packages similar to querystring

qs

The 'qs' package is an advanced query string parser that supports nested objects and arrays, and offers more in-depth control over the parsing and stringifying of query strings compared to 'querystring'.

README

querystring

Node's querystring module for all engines.

If you want to help with evolution of this package, please see https://github.com/Gozala/querystring/issues/20 PR's welcome!

🔧 Install

npm i querystring

📖 Documentation

Refer to Node's documentation for querystring.

📜 License

MIT © Gozala

Changelog

0.2.1 (2021-02-15)

Maintanance update