path.parse() from Node.js as a standalone package

path.parse() from a current Node.js version (matching this package version), packaged into a stand-alone module, without deps (including Node.js core).

Consider using this package through compatible-path-parse wrapper to avoid unnecessary version updates and to ensure proper deduplication, see semver section for explanation.

usage

// Note: use compatible-path-parse wrapper instead in require
const pathParse = require('packaged-path-parse')
pathParse(path) // platform-dependant, default — posix
pathParse.posix(path) // posix
pathParse.win32(path) // win32

path.parse() from Node.js

Documented in Node.js Documentation.

Clean

No deps on any modules, including Node.js core modules.

ES3-compatible. Single file.

Can be run in browser environment natively.

Ponyfill

This module fits all definitions of being a ponyfill.

Fast

Uses the new code from Node.js that avoids using regexes — there is not a single regex present here.

That was done mainly for performance reasons in Node.js, and path parsing became faster.

Tested

Tested to have the exact same behavior as the corresponding Node.js version path.parse(). Tests are generated from Node.js code automatically, based on strings present in Node.js path tests, and validated on any version.

The test matrix on Travis starts with Node.js 0.8.6 — the lowest one that has pre-built Linux binaries that nvm can install.

Also tested for identical behavior on brute-forced strings on the exact same version that the code was taken from.

Up-to-date

Based on a recent Node.js verson.

How recent? That's easy to tell — it matches with this package version!

That also makes testing easier.

Also, the Node.js (and this package) version is mentioned on the very first line of the library js file (index.js).

Semver?

Up-to-date section outlined why it was chosen to keep the Node.js package version numbering for this package — to provide clear understanding of the Node.js version used as the source, and to give predictable behavior.

Because of that while packaged-path-parse conforms to semver requirements, it bumps versions more often than it should be done. But there is a fix for that!

The version of packaged-path-parse is mirrored from Node.js version, and not all semver-major changes in Node.js must be semver-major changes in path.parse, as well as not all semver-minor changes in Node.js are semver-minor changes in path.parse.

All semver-major changes in path.parse are semver-major in Node.js, and all semver-minor changes in path.parse are semver-minor in Node.js, so you will never miss those.

It is recommended to use compatible-path-parse instead, which is a wrapper around this module that takes care of not bumping major/minor versions when path.parse was not affected by those — that way you and your users will get important updates faster, and that will better de-duplicate the code in case of several packages using this one.

Is this compatible to path-parse npm package?

path-parse package looks unmaintained and uses the old Node.js code that did the parsing using regexes.

The tests from path-parse module pass on packaged-path-parse with the exception of the exact TypeError error message texts — those were changed in Node.js over time.

License

MIT. See LICENSE file.