How to Easily Manipulate Search Queries in JavaScript
Ferenc Almasi • 2020 August 11 •
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You don't have to write your own custom functions anymore to work with query string, JavaScript has the URLSearchParams API which lets you interact and manipulate search queries with ease.
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// Use the URLSearchParams API to manipulate search queries:
const urlParams = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search);
console.log(urlParams.has('id')); // returns true
console.log(urlParams.get('min-price')); // returns “0”
console.log(urlParams.append('max-price', '999')); // Returns “999”
console.log(urlParams.toString()) // Returns “id=123&min-price=0&max-price=999”So how well is it supported? According to caniuse.com, global support sits around ~95% at the writing of this article, with IE being unsupported.
This means, if you need to cater for IE, you also need a fallback option. There is a polyfill for everything on NPMJS.
If you don't want to use a polyfill, but rather implement your own solution, there's also a URL API which has a slightly better support. It supports IE down to version 10.
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const url = new URL(window.location.href);
const searchParams = url.searchParams;
console.log(searchParams.has('id')); // returns true
console.log(searchParams.get('min-price')); // returns “0”
console.log(searchParams.append('max-price', '999')); // Returns “999”
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