The 'user-home' npm package is a simple utility that provides the path to the current user's home directory. It is useful for applications that need to store or access user-specific configuration files or data.
Get User Home Directory
This feature allows you to retrieve the path to the current user's home directory. The code sample demonstrates how to use the 'user-home' package to log the home directory path to the console.
const userHome = require('user-home');
console.log(userHome);The 'os-homedir' package provides similar functionality by returning the home directory of the current user. It is a lightweight alternative to 'user-home' and is part of the 'os' module in Node.js.
The 'os' module is a built-in Node.js module that provides operating system-related utility methods and properties. The 'os.homedir()' method can be used to get the current user's home directory, making it a direct alternative to 'user-home'.
Get the path to the user home directory
$ npm install --save user-home
var userHome = require('user-home');
console.log(userHome);
//=> /Users/sindresorhus
$ npm install --global user-home
$ user-home --help
Example
$ user-home
/Users/sindresorhus
MIT © Sindre Sorhus
FAQs
Get the path to the user home directory
The npm package user-home receives a total of 1,190,798 weekly downloads. As such, user-home popularity was classified as popular.
We found that user-home 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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