How to extract the host from a URL in JavaScript?

Question

Capture the domain till the ending characters $, \\?, /, :. I need a regex that captures domian.com in all of these.

domain.com:3000
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Answer 1

A new challenger has appeared. According to node docs, you can also use

   var url = new URL(urlString);
   console.log(url.hostname);

https://nodejs.org/api/url.html#url_the_whatwg_url_api

This seems to be a more current way.