Why

Sometimes you need to display truncated paths in your application. This module does just that. It also works perfectly for urls too!

let truncatePath = require('truncate-path');

let file = '/your/very/very/long/path-to/my-modules/test-module/node_modules/chokidar/types/index.d.ts';

console.log("Local File:", truncatePath(file, 10));


let url="https://cdn.pixabay.com/download/audio/2023/04/03/audio_047543feac.mp3?filename=relaxing-145038.mp3&g-recaptcha-response=03ADUVZwAycgBPXsjVYD2lKzJNgZQdBFMeLK9oxBVA4hBSQCFriPkOOwz19q6Copxw41AnkONr4T7ekwCTWZDBcON-fbd4AHSJ6Xnro0h19hM5LaXXak6G6_o-y5pHhB3Bcx_mUMOa2dPQP4lXUBKqPN4idD2-e8G7UdhEHGcy-XT_8EIANjVtyHFO7SHHji4WkGGnJGYdQVQlKlXMkYrwrIAe7ILR6aWWFu-f42tbghVh3vmm9ls1tv1yKJEWqblV4bNL-CaK47yLiAZt7PlruJELzcsb6yVpDTOtLK4hznimRAUPKzl9DN7t7GrRacprKIAsJBnHZF4zCiqClxJsAPdXsJCI66frxZ0VP5EQvg19ur7mwoJC9rwhMRPuLh8fgulTt8i1svGn6zMsj737VwlP3ak4kYlWftnV1H2N3Wt9u1GsUSbVtVAMi2RKYg0vRIB_Pgzq2aEV7GtWcGJ87qTk-wLiQ_FIo9qg_XJaRBUnwEhThnxql95hpp7e1AMsD0LUlksSBuWmGvI2lJbj0Z3FIKWQnwU78Q&remote_template=1";

console.log("Long URL:", truncatePath(url));

This outputs:

Local File: /your/[..]/index.d.ts

Long URL: //cdn.pixabay.com/download/audio/[..]/audio_047543feac.mp3

API

truncatePath( file, [length] )

The default length is 40 characters.

Please note that the path generated is not always the length defined but the closest (complete) path that can be generated.

By complete path, we mean that directory and file names are not split midway.

As such "/this/that/those/file.ext" can never be "/this/that/th[...]/fi.ext" or something like that. Because that would be a very ugly path indeed!

Enjoy!