# prefer-import-meta-properties

📝 Prefer `import.meta.{dirname,filename}` over legacy techniques for getting file paths.

🚫 This rule is _disabled_ in the following [configs](https://github.com/sindresorhus/eslint-plugin-unicorn#recommended-config): ✅ `recommended`, ☑️ `unopinionated`.

🔧 This rule is automatically fixable by the [`--fix` CLI option](https://eslint.org/docs/latest/user-guide/command-line-interface#--fix).

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Starting with Node.js 20.11, [`import.meta.dirname`](https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html#importmetadirname) and [`import.meta.filename`](https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html#importmetafilename) have been introduced in ES modules.

> `import.meta.filename` is the same as the `url.fileURLToPath()` of the `import.meta.url`.\
> `import.meta.dirname` is the same as the `path.dirname()` of the `import.meta.filename`.

This rule replaces legacy patterns with `import.meta.{dirname,filename}`.

## Examples

```js
import path from 'node:path';
import {fileURLToPath} from 'node:url';

// ❌
const filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);

// ✅
const filename = import.meta.filename;
```

```js
import path from 'node:path';
import {fileURLToPath} from 'node:url';

// ❌
const dirname = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
const dirname = path.dirname(import.meta.filename);
const dirname = fileURLToPath(new URL('.', import.meta.url));

// ✅
const dirname = import.meta.dirname;
```