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

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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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Comments

[Andrew Schmelyun]

You can also use the method directly with esm:

import { homedir } from 'os'

const userHomeDir = homedir()

[MELVIN GEORGE]

Thanks for sharing it, Andrew.

[Mohammed Nadeem Shareef]

It really helped me. Thanks man