resolve-dir   

Resolve a directory that is either local, global or in the user's home directory.

Install

Install with npm:

sh
$ npm install --save resolve-dir

Usage

js
var resolve = require('resolve-dir');

Returns a local directory path unchanged

js
resolve('a')
//=> 'a'

Resolves the path to user home

js
resolve('~')
//=> '/Users/jonschlinkert'
resolve('~/foo')
//=> '/Users/jonschlinkert/foo'

Resolves the path to global npm modules

js
resolve('@')
//=> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
resolve('@/foo')
//=> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/foo'

About

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Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](../../issues/new).

Building docs

_(This document was generated by verb-generate-readme (a verb generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in [.verb.md](.verb.md).)_

To generate the readme and API documentation with verb:

sh
$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

sh
$ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT license.

_This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.1.28, on July 29, 2016._