vurl

Install

npm install --save vurl

Example

Using the minimist module:

var vurl = require('vurl'),
    minimist = require('minimist');

//The current url
//mydomain.com/one/two?bla&color=blue&c
console.log(minimist(vurl()));

The output from running the above: {_:['one', 'two'], bla: true, c: true, color: 'blue'}

Raw output from calling vurl: ['one', 'two', '--bla', '--color', 'blue', '-c']

About

This is one attempt at making javascript act the same when in the command line, or the browser.

Facilities to parse process.argv are much more prevalent in the javascript ecosystem. Maybe when you have a webpage you can use those facilities too.

vurl uses the pathname as the positional arguments, and the query string as the flags.

When you call vurl in a browser environment it transforms the url into the same thing as if you called node on your script and did process.argv.slice(2) in that script.

In a node command line script vurl just does the process.argv.slice(2) for you.

vurl has no dependencies.