@wordpress/url/src/remove-query-args.js

WordPress URL utilities.

/**
 * External dependencies
 */
import { parse, stringify } from 'qs';

/**
 * Removes arguments from the query string of the url
 *
 * @param {string}    url  URL.
 * @param {...string} args Query Args.
 *
 * @example
 * ```js
 * const newUrl = removeQueryArgs( 'https://wordpress.org?foo=bar&bar=baz&baz=foobar', 'foo', 'bar' ); // https://wordpress.org?baz=foobar
 * ```
 *
 * @return {string} Updated URL.
 */
export function removeQueryArgs( url, ...args ) {
	const queryStringIndex = url.indexOf( '?' );
	const query =
		queryStringIndex !== -1
			? parse( url.substr( queryStringIndex + 1 ) )
			: {};
	const baseUrl =
		queryStringIndex !== -1 ? url.substr( 0, queryStringIndex ) : url;

	args.forEach( ( arg ) => delete query[ arg ] );

	return baseUrl + '?' + stringify( query );
}