The urix npm package is designed to help with the manipulation and transformation of file paths in a way that is compatible across different operating systems, particularly focusing on handling Windows file paths in Unix-style and vice versa.
Convert Windows file paths to Unix-style paths
This feature allows developers to convert Windows-style paths (which use backslashes) into Unix-style paths (which use forward slashes). This is particularly useful for ensuring consistent file paths in applications that may run across different operating systems.
const urix = require('urix');
const windowsPath = 'C:\\Users\\Example\\file.txt';
const unixPath = urix(windowsPath);
console.log(unixPath); // Outputs: /C:/Users/Example/file.txtThe 'path' module is a core Node.js module that provides utilities for working with file and directory paths. It offers similar functionality to urix but is built into Node.js and supports a wider range of path manipulations, such as normalization, joining, and resolution.
upath is an npm package that extends the native path module to add better handling for Windows paths when used in Unix environments. It provides similar functionality to urix by normalizing paths across different operating systems but also includes additional utilities for path manipulation.
Makes Windows-style paths more unix and URI friendly. Useful if you work with paths that eventually will be used in URLs.
var urix = require("urix")
// On Windows:
urix("c:\\users\\you\\foo")
// /users/you/foo
// On unix-like systems:
urix("c:\\users\\you\\foo")
// c:\users\you\foo
npm install urix
var urix = require("urix")
urix(path)On Windows, replaces all backslashes with slashes and uses a slash instead of a drive letter and a colon for absolute paths.
On unix-like systems it is a no-op.
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Makes Windows-style paths more unix and URI friendly.
The npm package urix receives a total of 10,855,619 weekly downloads. As such, urix popularity was classified as popular.
We found that urix 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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