urlargs

Utility for parsing URL query parameters with types.

Usage

import { UrlArgs } from 'urlargs';

// define default values
const args = new UrlArgs( {
	enabled: false,
	count: 10,
	name: 'test',
	tags: [ 'a', 'b' ],
} );

// URL = website.com/?count=20&enabled=false
// get typed parameters based on the defaults
const { count, enabled, name, tags } = args.values;

Booleans

URL parameters are considered true if set to any of the following:

• ✅ ?enabled
• ✅ ?enabled=true
• ✅ ?enabled=TRUE
• ✅ ?enabled=1
• ❌ ?enabled=false
• ❌ ?enabled=FALSE
• ❌ ?enabled=0
• ❌ ?enabled=anythingElse

Arrays

[!TIP] Parameters that appear multiple times are collected into a string array.

?tags=a&tags=b → ['a', 'b']

[!CAUTION] Arrays are NOT comma-separated! The following will NOT work:

?tags=a,b → ['a,b']

Documenting arguments

UrlArgs can also generate a table of the parameters and their descriptions in the console:

args.describe( {
	count: 'The number of items to display',
	enabled: 'Whether the items are enabled',
	name: 'The name of the items',
} );

This will produce output like this in the browser console. Values that differ from the defaults will be highlighted.