[](https://www.npmjs.org/package/home-path) [](https://www.npmjs.org/package/home-path) [](https://travis-ci.org/75lb/home-path) [](https://david-dm.org/75lb/home-path) [](https://github.com/feross/standard) <a name="module_home-path"></a> # home-path Cross-platform home directory retriever, tested on Windows XP and above, Mac OSX and Linux. With node versions 2.3.0 (iojs) or higher, the built-in [`os.homedir`](https://nodejs.org/api/os.html#os_os_homedir) method is used. **Example** ```js var getHomePath = require('home-path') ``` <a name="exp_module_home-path--getHomePath"></a> ## getHomePath() ⏏ **Kind**: Exported function **Example** Mac OSX ```js > getHomePath() '/Users/Lloyd' ``` Ubuntu Linux ```js > getHomePath() '/home/lloyd' ``` Windows 8.1 ```js > getHomePath() 'C:\\Users\\Lloyd' ``` * * * © 2015-17 Lloyd Brookes \<75pound@gmail.com\>. Documented by [jsdoc-to-markdown](https://github.com/jsdoc2md/jsdoc-to-markdown).