# is-absolute [![NPM version](https://badge.fury.io/js/is-absolute.svg)](http://badge.fury.io/js/is-absolute) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/is-absolute.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/is-absolute) > Return true if a file path is absolute. Based on the `isAbsolute` utility method in [express](https://github.com/visionmedia/express). ## Install with [npm](npmjs.org) ```bash npm i is-absolute --save ``` ## Usage ```js var isAbsolute = require('is-absolute'); console.log(isAbsolute('a/b/c.js')); //=> 'false'; ``` ## Running tests Install dev dependencies. ```bash npm i -d && npm test ``` ## Contributing Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-absolute/issues) ## Other projects * [is-relative](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-relative): Returns `true` if the path appears to be relative. * [is-dotfile](https://github.com/regexps/is-dotfile): Return true if a file path is (or has) a dotfile. * [is-glob](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob): Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern. * [cwd](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/cwd): Node.js util for easily getting the current working directory of a project based on package.json or the given path. * [git-config-path](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/git-config-path): Resolve the path to the user's global .gitconfig. ## Author **Jon Schlinkert** + [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) + [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert) ## License Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Jon Schlinkert Released under the MIT license *** _This file was generated by [verb-cli](https://github.com/assemble/verb-cli) on March 05, 2015._