How do I parse a URL into hostname and path in javascript?

Question

I would like to take a string

var a = \"http://example.com/aa/bb/\"

and process it into an object such that

a.hostname == \         


        

Answer 1

Use https://www.npmjs.com/package/uri-parse-lib for this

var t = parserURI("http://user:pass@example.com:8080/directory/file.ext?query=1&next=4&sed=5#anchor");