Expanding / Resolving ~ in node.js

Question

I am new to nodejs. Can node resolve ~ (unix home directory) example ~foo, ~bar to /home/foo, /home/bar

 > path.normalize('~mvaidya')  '~mvaidya' > path.resolve('~mvaidya')  '/home/mvaidya/~mvaidya' >   

This response is wrong; I am hoping that ~mvaidya must resolve to /home/mvaidya

Answer 1

As QZ Support noted, you can use process.env.HOME on OSX/Linux. Here's a simple function with no dependencies.

const path = require('path'); function resolveHome(filepath) {     if (filepath[0] === '~') {         return path.join(process.env.HOME, filepath.slice(1));     }     return filepath; }