what does query string.parse do code example

Example 1: get query string javascript nodejs

const querystring = require('querystring');
const url = "http://example.com/index.html?code=string&key=12&id=false";
const qs = "code=string&key=12&id=false";

console.log(querystring.parse(qs));
// > { code: 'string', key: '12', id: 'false' }

console.log(querystring.parse(url));

Example 2: string to query string javascript

serialize = function(obj) {
  var str = [];
  for (var p in obj)
    if (obj.hasOwnProperty(p)) {
      str.push(encodeURIComponent(p) + "=" + encodeURIComponent(obj[p]));
    }
  return str.join("&");
}

console.log(serialize({
  foo: "hi there",
  bar: "100%"
}));
// foo=hi%20there&bar=100%25