🐥 Simple trick to validate a URL in JavaScript

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The URL object in JavaScript provides a built-in way to parse and validate URLs. It is robust, handles complex cases, and doesn’t require writing or maintaining custom regular expressions neither does it require an external library.

function isValid(url) {
    try {
        new URL(url);
        return true;
    } catch (e) {
        return false;
    }
}

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