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URL Module

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Summary

The built-in global URL and url modules facilitate parsing and manipulating web addresses into components such as protocols, hosts, pathnames, and queries. This ability is important when building a server or reading a request parameter. With a URL parser, you don't have to manually break through the address strings that are vulnerable to error. (Node.js)

Key points

Global URLs use the WHATWG standard as in the browser
The URL components: protocol, host, pathname, searchparams
New URL(input, base) is suitable for relative URLs
Url.parse is an old API; it is better to use the URL class

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