# is-relative [![NPM version](https://badge.fury.io/js/is-relative.svg)](http://badge.fury.io/js/is-relative) > Returns `true` if the path appears to be relative. ## Install Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) ```sh $ npm i is-relative --save ``` ## Usage ```js var isRelative = require('is-relative'); isRelative('README.md'); //=> true ``` ## Other projects * [is-absolute](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-absolute): Return true if a file path is absolute. * [is-dotfile](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-dotfile): Return true if a file path is (or has) a dotfile. * [is-glob](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob): Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern. * [is-unc-path](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-unc-path): Returns true if a filepath is a windows UNC file path. ## Running tests Install dev dependencies: ```sh $ npm i -d && npm test ``` ## Contributing Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-relative/issues/new) ## Author **Jon Schlinkert** + [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) + [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert) ## License Copyright © 2014-2015 [Jon Schlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) Released under the MIT license. *** _This file was generated by [verb-cli](https://github.com/assemble/verb-cli) on July 11, 2015._