querystringify

What is querystringify?

The querystringify npm package is a utility for parsing and formatting URL query strings. It is designed to be simple and lightweight, providing basic functionalities to handle query strings in web applications.

What are querystringify's main functionalities?

Parse query string

This feature allows you to parse a query string into an object. It takes a query string as input and returns an object with key-value pairs corresponding to the parameters in the query string.

const querystringify = require('querystringify');
const parsed = querystringify.parse('?foo=bar&hello=world');
console.log(parsed); // { foo: 'bar', hello: 'world' }

Stringify object

This feature converts an object into a query string. It takes an object as input and returns a query string with each object property converted into a key-value pair.

const querystringify = require('querystringify');
const stringified = querystringify.stringify({ foo: 'bar', hello: 'world' });
console.log(stringified); // 'foo=bar&hello=world'

Other packages similar to querystringify

qs

qs is a more feature-rich package compared to querystringify. It supports nested objects, arrays, and can handle complex parsing and stringifying scenarios which querystringify does not support.

query-string

query-string provides similar functionalities to querystringify but with additional features like handling arrays and objects, and it supports modern JavaScript features like ES6 modules. It is also more actively maintained.