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user-home

Get the path to the user home directory

3.0.0

160

MIT

JavaScript

4.1

Installations

npm install user-home

Developer Guide

BETA

Typescript

No

Module System

N/A

Min. Node Version

>=0.10.0

Node Version

15.12.0

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7.5.4 Pull Requests

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JavaScript

JavaScript (100%)

Developer

sindresorhus

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MIT License

160 Stars

24 Commits

12 Forks

5 Watchers

1 Branches

4 Contributors

Updated on Apr 29, 2025

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Package Meta Information

Latest Version

3.0.0

Package Id

user-home@3.0.0

Size

2.02 kB

NPM Version

7.5.4

Node Version

15.12.0

Published on

Apr 09, 2021

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Dependencies

os-homedir

Dev Dependencies

ava path-exists

Deprecated. Just use import {homedir} from 'os';.

user-home

Get the path to the user home directory

Install

$ npm install user-home

Usage

1const userHome = require('user-home');
2
3console.log(userHome);
4//=> '/Users/sindresorhus'

Returns null in the unlikely scenario that the home directory can't be found.

FAQ

Why not just use the `os-home` module?

This module was made long before os-homedir. When Node.js decided to add a native method for getting the user's home directory, I made a polyfill matching its API and decided to depend on it here, so not to have duplicate code. The main reason this one is still around is that lots of modules depend on it and I see no reason to inconvenience dependents by deprecating this. This one also gets the home directory on startup and returns a string rather than exposing a method, so it's faster, and I prefer this API. Modules are cheap in Node.js, so doesn't matter. Use whichever you prefer. I'm going to continue using this one.

user-home-cli - CLI for this module
home-or-tmp - Get the user home directory with fallback to the system temp directory

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user-home

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Developer Guide

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N/A

>=0.10.0

15.12.0

7.5.4

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0

4

1

3

Issues

0

2

2

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Developer

sindresorhus

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