linkify-it VS normalize-url

Compare linkify-it vs normalize-url and see what are their differences.

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linkify-it normalize-url
2 1
642 819
0.9% -
6.8 4.8
5 months ago about 1 month ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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linkify-it

Posts with mentions or reviews of linkify-it. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-04.
  • Changing Shifts At One of The World's Most Dangerous Lighthouse.
    1 project | /r/Damnthatsinteresting | 5 Aug 2022
    I would only imagine that the product team must be dictating technical implementations to the devs. The devs will eventually post the user story in /r/MaliciousCompliance which will reveal that someone thought that using linkify-it was a hammer that could be applied to all scenarios.
  • Introducing: Pomsky (formerly Rulex)
    3 projects | /r/rust | 4 Jul 2022
    There are workarounds for them, for example here's JS library which basically compiles into one huge regexp: https://github.com/markdown-it/linkify-it/blob/9482bfec2532cfccb8d7a55f1b89facf54760b48/lib/re.js

normalize-url

Posts with mentions or reviews of normalize-url. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-02.
  • Share Your Startup - June 2021 - Put Your Startup On Blast!
    6 projects | /r/startups | 2 Jun 2021
    I have an update for all iOS users. I have managed to find the problem, but unfortunately, it is a bug in an external library that I am using and not directly in my software (link to this problem https://github.com/sindresorhus/normalize-url/issues/105 ).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing linkify-it and normalize-url you can also consider the following projects:

url-unshort - Short links expander for node.js

url-pattern - easier than regex string matching patterns for urls and other strings. turn strings into data or data into strings.

speakingurl - Generate a slug – transliteration with a lot of options

embedza - Create HTML snippets/embeds from URLs using info from oEmbed, Open Graph, meta tags.

Prerender Request Blacklist - Prerender plugin help to blacklist and abort all css, png, font request in chrome hreadless

humanize-url - Humanize a URL: https://sindresorhus.com → sindresorhus.com