How to apply redirect rules to a path?

[swamidass]

How can I read in redirect rules in node, and then apply those rules to a URL to see what URL it will be redirected to?

[ehmicky]

Hi @swamidass,

The short answer is: this is unfortunately not easy to do at the moment.

A longer answer: this library is only concerned with loading and normalizing redirect rules, not applying them to URLs. Internally, Netlify uses another library for it: netlify-redirector. This is for example what we use in Netlify CLI (link to code). Unfortunately, that library is currently undocumented (and hasn't been updated in 3 years).

[swamidass]

Thanks for the info.

A minimal example that shows reading in the redirects, and then applying netlify-redirector to a rule would be great to see.