get the middle folder of a file from a path in node.js

Question

I have a file under "modules/test/main/main.js" and i want to get the "test" folder :

I tried this code but all i get is the main folder

path.basename(path.dirname('modules/test/main/main.js'))

Answer 1

You can split on / and than drop off last item as it is file name. and than take the middle element

 let path = `modules/test/main/main.js` let middle = path.split(/\\//g) middle.pop() console.log(middle[Math.floor(middle.length-1)/2]) 

Answer 2

You can use path.join() to go up two directories, and then get the basename of the directory:

const p = 'modules/test/main/main.js';
const dir = path.basename(path.join(p, '../..')); // 'test'