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by jeffschofield 2553 days ago
FYI a URL parser was actually added around 2 years ago in v8.0.0. It's based on the WHATWG standard and matches the implementation in modern browsers.

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

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Good to know. Maybe if I got back to it the core is more functional now.

My impression is that it's soo easy to publish to NPM and the ecosystem is newbie friendly - this is good but it also creates a lot of noise and popularity/usage is not a valid indicator of reliability/quality (compared to other platforms). And because the core was so barebones you need to use third party solutions a lot more often so it compounds the issues.