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xdg-basedir

Get XDG Base Directory paths

5.1.0

MIT

JavaScript

470.00 B

3,011,450,590 4.2

Installations

npm install xdg-basedir

Developer Guide

BETA

Typescript

No

Module System

ESM

Min. Node Version

>=12

Node Version

12.22.1

NPM Version

7.10.0 Score

99.7

Supply Chain

88.2

Quality

75.5

Maintenance

100

Vulnerability

100

License

Pull Requests

Open

0

Total

5

Closed

1

Merged

4

Issues

Open

0

Total

1

Closed

1

Releases

v5.1.0

Updated on Aug 05, 2021

v5.0.1

Updated on Apr 05, 2021

v5.0.0

Updated on Apr 05, 2021

v4.0.0

Updated on Apr 30, 2019

View All 4 releases

Languages

JavaScript

TypeScript

JavaScript (76.99%)

TypeScript (23.01%)

Developer

sindresorhus

Download Statistics

Total Downloads

3,011,450,590

Last Day

639,712

Last Week

10,365,717

Last Month

44,887,781

Last Year

472,652,173

GitHub Statistics

MIT License

83 Stars

27 Commits

10 Forks

5 Watchers

1 Branches

5 Contributors

Updated on May 11, 2025

Bundle Size

1.00 kB

Minified

470.00 B

Minified + Gzipped

Bundlephobia

Sponsor this package

https://github.com/sponsors/sindresorhus

Maintainers

View All 5 Contributors

Package Meta Information

Latest Version

5.1.0

Package Id

xdg-basedir@5.1.0

Size

2.56 kB

NPM Version

7.10.0

Node Version

12.22.1

Published on

Aug 05, 2021

Total Downloads

Cumulative downloads

Total Downloads

3,011,450,590

Last Day

-9.7%

639,712

Compared to previous day

Last Week

-9.3%

10,365,717

Compared to previous week

Last Month

5.3%

44,887,781

Compared to previous month

Last Year

7.2%

472,652,173

Compared to previous year

Weekly Downloads

Monthly Downloads

Yearly Downloads

Dev Dependencies

ava import-fresh tsd xo

xdg-basedir

Get XDG Base Directory paths

This package is meant for Linux. You should not use XDG on macOS or Windows. Instead, you should follow their platform conventions. You can use env-paths for that.

Install

$ npm install xdg-basedir

Usage

1import {xdgData, xdgConfig, xdgDataDirectories} from 'xdg-basedir';
2
3console.log(xdgData);
4//=> '/home/sindresorhus/.local/share'
5
6console.log(xdgConfig);
7//=> '/home/sindresorhus/.config'
8
9console.log(xdgDataDirectories);
10//=> ['/home/sindresorhus/.local/share', '/usr/local/share/', '/usr/share/']

API

The exports xdgData, xdgConfig, xdgCache, xdgRuntime will return undefined in the uncommon case that both the XDG environment variable is not set and the users home directory can't be found. You need to handle this case. A common solution is to fall back to a temporary directory.

xdgData

Directory for user-specific data files.

xdgConfig

Directory for user-specific configuration files.

xdgState

Directory for user-specific state files.

xdgCache

Directory for user-specific non-essential data files.

xdgRuntime

Directory for user-specific non-essential runtime files and other file objects (such as sockets, named pipes, etc).

xdgDataDirectories

Preference-ordered array of base directories to search for data files in addition to xdgData.

xdgConfigDirectories

Preference-ordered array of base directories to search for configuration files in addition to xdgConfig.

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Branch-Protection

Determines if the default and release branches are protected with GitHub's branch protection settings.

0

SAST

Determines if the project uses static code analysis.

Score

4.2

/10

Last Scanned on 2025-06-23

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