linkify-it VS url-pattern

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

linkify-it

Links recognition library with full unicode support (by markdown-it)
Url

url-pattern

easier than regex string matching patterns for urls and other strings. turn strings into data or data into strings. (by snd)
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linkify-it url-pattern
2 -
644 574
0.9% -
6.8 0.0
5 months ago over 3 years ago
JavaScript CoffeeScript
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

url-pattern

Posts with mentions or reviews of url-pattern. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning url-pattern yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

url-unshort - Short links expander for node.js

query-string - Parse and stringify URL query strings

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

URI.js - Javascript URL mutation library

normalize-url - Normalize a URL

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

HaikunatorJS - Generate Heroku-like random names to use in your node applications.

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

string.js - Extra JavaScript string methods.