Learning Node.js Development

Encoding URI component

Encoding, the method is called encodeURIComponent, encode URI in uppercase component, and it takes just one argument, the string you want to encode. In our case, that string will be the address, something like 1301 lombard street philadelphia. When we run this address through encodeURIComponent by hitting enter, we get the encoded version back:

encodeURIComponent('1301 lombard street philadelphia')

As shown in the following code output, we can see all the spaces, like the space between 1301 and lombard, have been replaced with their encoded character, and for the case of the space it is %20. By passing our string through encodeURIComponent, we'll create something that's ready to get injected right into the URL so we ...