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function typeByExtension
import { typeByExtension } from "https://deno.land/std@0.195.0/media_types/type_by_extension.ts";

Returns the media type associated with the file extension. Values are normalized to lower case and matched irrespective of a leading ..

When extension has no associated type, the function returns undefined.

Examples

Example 1

import { typeByExtension } from "https://deno.land/std@0.195.0/media_types/type_by_extension.ts";

typeByExtension("js"); // `application/json`
typeByExtension(".HTML"); // `text/html`
typeByExtension("foo"); // undefined
typeByExtension("file.json"); // undefined

Parameters

extension: string

Returns

string | undefined