# is-directory [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-directory) [](https://npmjs.org/package/is-directory) [](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/is-directory) Returns true if a filepath exists on the file system and it's directory. ## Install Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/): ```sh $ npm install is-directory --save ``` ## Usage ```js var isDirectory = require('is-directory'); isDirectory('node_modules', function(err, dir) { if (err) throw err; console.log(dir); //=> true }); isDirectory.sync('README.md'); //=> false ``` ## Related projects You might also be interested in these projects: * [is-absolute](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-absolute): Polyfill for node.js `path.isAbolute`. Returns true if a file path is absolute. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-absolute) * [is-glob](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-glob): Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern.… [more](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-glob) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob) * [is-relative](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-relative): Returns `true` if the path appears to be relative. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-relative) ## Contributing Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-directory/issues/new). ## Building docs Generate readme and API documentation with [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb): ```sh $ npm install verb && npm run docs ``` Or, if [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb) is installed globally: ```sh $ verb ``` ## Running tests Install dev dependencies: ```sh $ npm install -d && npm test ``` ## Author **Jon Schlinkert** * [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) * [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert) ## License Copyright © 2016, [Jon Schlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert). Released under the [MIT license](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-directory/blob/master/LICENSE). *** _This file was generated by [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb), v0.9.0, on May 21, 2016._