js-url: small library for parsing out parts of URLs

This will come in handy. You pass in a full URL and quickly pick out all the parts.

websanova/jquery-url · GitHub

url() – A simple, lightweight url parser for JavaScript. Also includes a jQuery version of the plugin that can be called via $.url() with all the same options. If you’re already using jQuery it may be better to use the jQuery version to avoid namespacing issues.

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