mime-explorer ☂

A versatile library that simplifies MIME type management, providing a user-friendly interface to effortlessly retrieve MIME types based on file paths/extensions, gather comprehensive meta information, and obtain standard file extensions for a given MIME type.

It is well-suited for a variety of tasks, including seamless interaction with HTTP headers and general operations involving files.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• License

Installation

npm install mime-explorer --save

Usage

To get the mime type for a given path or extension:

import { getType } from 'mime-explorer';

getType('txt');
// => 'text/plain'

getType('json');
// => 'application/json'

To get the file extension for a given mime type:

import { getExtension } from 'mime-explorer';

getExtension('text/plain');
// => 'txt'

getExtension('application/json');
// => 'json'

To get meta information for a mime type:

import { get } from 'mime-explorer';

get('text/plain');
/*
{
    "source": "iana",
    "compressible": true,
    "extensions": [
        "txt",
        "text",
        "conf",
        "def",
        "list",
        "log",
        "in",
        "ini"
    ]
}
 */

get('application/json');
/*
{
    "source": "iana",
    "charset": "UTF-8",
    "compressible": true,
    "extensions": [
        "json",
        "map"
    ]
}
 */

License

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Published under MIT License.