env-paths

Get paths for storing things like data, config, cache, etc (by sindresorhus)

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env-paths reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of env-paths. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-11.
  • Rob Pike: “Dotfiles” being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2022
    info on XDG: [the XDG spec](https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-...)

    tools that respect XDG, for fellow JS CLI developers:

    - https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig Find and load configuration from a package.json property, rc file, or CommonJS module. [Check `searchPaths` to implement XDG spec compliance.](https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig/issues/152)

    - Sindre's libraries use [`env-paths`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/env-paths#pathsconfig) to get paths compliant with this.

    - https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf simple config storing (maybe try [conf-cli](https://github.com/natzcam/conf-cli) to manipulate if needed) the successor to [configstore](https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf#how-is-this-different-f...)

    - https://github.com/jonschlinkert/data-store conf like datastore but in the shclinkerverse

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sindresorhus/env-paths is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of env-paths is JavaScript.


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