URLPattern

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Description

Used to create URL pattern matchers.

The URLPattern API provides a web platform primitive for matching URLs based on a convenient pattern syntax.
Wildcards, named capture groups, regular groups, and group modifiers are all supported.

The syntax is based on the popular path-to-regexp library.

Specification

https://urlpattern.spec.whatwg.org/

Additional Signals

Safari position: support
Firefox position: support
Supported in Chrome and Edge and Deno

Developer sentiment

Ryan Toronto tweet with 580 likes
Michael Jackson (creator of React Router and Remix) tweet
Sebastien Lorber tweet

An Express maintainer is interested in using it for the Express router

There is a polyfill that is being downloaded from NPM many millions of times per week.

[gsnedders]

https://wpt.fyi/results/urlpattern?label=experimental&label=master&aligned

[wpt-interop]

Thank you for proposing URLPattern for inclusion in Interop 2025.

We are pleased to let you know that this proposal was accepted as part of the URL Pattern focus area. You can follow the progress of this focus area on the Interop 2025 dashboard.

For an overview of our process, see proposal selection. Thank you for contributing to Interop 2025!

Posted on behalf of the Interop team.