url

url package provides polyfill for the WHATWG url specification for legacy browsers or defaults to the global class which is available in modern browsers and Node. It is recomended that you use this package for compatibility with non-modern browsers.

For more information we recommend reading the MDN articles about it and looking over the Node API documentation for more details as this article covers only basic usage in Meteor.

Usage

Installation

To add this package to an existing app, run the following command from your app directory:

meteor add url

To add the url package to an existing package, include the statement api.use('url'); in the Package.onUse callback in your package.js file:

Package.onUse((api) => {
  api.use('url');
});

After installing the package you can then import the URL and URLSearchParams from the package and use it as described at MDN and Node documentations.

URL

import { URL } from 'meteor/url';

const url = new URL('https://www.meteor.com');

You can then use URL for example in a fetch call:

import { URL } from 'meteor/url';
import { fetch } from 'meteor/fetch';

const url = new URL('https://www.example.com/api/reportVisit');

fetch(url, {
    method: 'POST',
    body: JSON.stringify({ siteId: 11 })
    ...
})

URLSearchParams

import { URLSearchParams } from 'meteor/url';

const searchParams = new URLSearchParams({ query: 'WHATWG', location: 'MDN' })

You can then include URLSearchParams in the options for URL if you build them separately from when creating the URL class.