1The path module provides utilities for working with file and directory paths. It can be accessed using:
2
3const path = require('path');

1const path = require('path');
2
3path.parse('/home/user/dir/file.txt');
4// Returns:
5// { root: '/',
6//   dir: '/home/user/dir',
7//   base: 'file.txt',
8//   ext: '.txt',
9//   name: 'file' }

1var path = require('path');
2var scriptName = path.basename(__filename);