How to get the current home directory of the user in Node.js?

March 20, 2021 - 1 min read

To get the current user home directory, you can use the homedir() method from the os module in Node.js.

/* Get home directory of the user in Node.js */

// import os module
const os = require("os");

// check the available memory
const userHomeDir = os.homedir();
  • The method returns the path to the directory as a string.

See the above code live in repl.it.

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