node.js http 'get' request with query string parameters

Question

I have a Node.js application that is an http client (at the moment). So I\'m doing:

var query = require(\'querystring\').stringify(propertiesObject);
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Answer 1

No need for a 3rd party library. Use the nodejs url module to build a URL with query parameters:

const requestUrl = url.parse(url.format({
    protocol: 'https',
    hostname: 'yoursite.com',
    pathname: '/the/path',
    query: {
        key: value
    }
}));

Then make the request with the formatted url. requestUrl.path will include the query parameters.

const req = https.get({
    hostname: requestUrl.hostname,
    path: requestUrl.path,
}, (res) => {
   // ...
})