landmark-utils

Landmark Utils ============== A useful library of utilities for node.js used by [Landmark](http://landmarkserve.com) and you! It provides additional functionality for manipulating and converting various types of data, including converting strings between various forms, and lightweight html ← → text conversion. ## Usage npm install landmark-utils --save ... then ... var utils = require('landmark-utils'); console.log(utils.isObject({})); // true! ### Bundled with Landmark If you're using [Landmark](http://landmarkserve.com), it exposes this library as `.utils`. var landmark = require('landmark-serve'), utils = landmark.utils; ## Test utilities * `isFunction(arg)` - determines if `arg` is a function * `isObject(arg)` - determines if `arg` is an object * `isValidObjectId(arg)` - determines if `arg` looks like a valid MongoDB ObjectId * `isArray(arg)` - determines if `arg` is an array * `isDate(arg)` - determines if `arg` is a date * `isString(arg)` - determines if `arg` is a string * `isNumber(arg)` - determines if `arg` is a number * `isEmail(arg)` - make sure `arg` looks like a valid email address * Uses a regular expression to check, so may cause false-negatives in extremely rare cases. See http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html ## Option utilities * `options(defaults, options)` - copies and merges options into the defaults * `optionsMap(arr, property, clone)` - creates a map of options * Turns an array of objects into an object of objects, with each object under the value of `property` * Will shallow-clone the objects when `clone` is true (c/o `underscore.clone`) ## Function utilities * `bindMethods(obj, scope)` - recursively binds method properties of `obj` to `scope` and returns a new object containing the bound methods. ## Random utilities * `randomString(len, chars)` - Generates a 'random' string of characters to the specified length (uses Math.random). * `len` can be an array of `[min, max]` length to generate * `chars` is a string of characters to include, defaults to `0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXTZabcdefghiklmnopqrstuvwxyz` ## Conversion utilities * `number(arg)` - converts a string to a number, accepting human-friendly input * e.g. `1,432` » `1432`, `$1432` » `1432`, `2.5` » `2.5` * `escapeRegExp(str)` - escapes a string to be safely converted to a regular expression * `escapeString(str)` - escapes a string to be safely used as a Javascript string literal * `stripDiacritics(str)` - stips accented characters from a string, replacing them with their simple equivalents * `transliterate(str)` - transliterates Russian and Ukrainian words from cyrillic to latin * `singular(str)` - converts a string to its singular form * `plural(count, singular, plural)` - displays the singular or plural of a string based on a number or number of items in an array. * Replaces `*` in the string with the number * Will automatically convert `singular` to `plural` when plural is not provided * When only given one argument, will return the plural form of a string * e.g. * `plural(1, '* thing')` » `'1 thing'` * `plural(2, '* thing')` » `'2 things'` * `plural([1,2], 'single', 'couple')` » `'couple'` * `plural('friend')` » `'friends'` * `upcase(str)` - converts the first letter in a string to Uppercase * `downcase(str)` - converts the first letter in a string to lowercase * `titlecase(str)` - converts a string to Title Case * `camelcase(str, lowercase)` - converts a string to camelCase * The `lowercase` argument causes the first letter to be lowercase, and default to `true`. * `decodeHTMLEntities(str)` - decodes html entities in a string * `encodeHTMLEntities(str)` - encodes html entities in a string * `textToHTML(str)` - lightweight conversion of text to HTML (line breaks to `<br>`) * `htmlToText(str)` - lightweight conversion to HTML to text * Really only useful when you need a lightweight way to remove html from a string before cropping it, so you don't end up with partial tags or an invalid DOM structure. * It will convert `br`, `p`, `div`, `li`, `td`, `th` tags to single line-breaks. All other tags are stripped. * Multiple line breaks are then compressed to a single line break, and leading / trailing white space is stripped. * For a more sophisticated use-case, you should check out the `to-markdown` and `html-to-text` packages on npm. * `cropString(str, length, append, preserveWords)` - crops a string to the specified length * You can optionally provide a string to `append` (only appended if the original string was longer than the specified length). * If `preserveWords` is true, the length is extended to the end of the last word that would have been cropped. * `cropHTMLString(str, length, append, preserveWords)` - crops an HTML string safely by converting it to text, cropping it, then converting it back to HTML * `slug(str, separator)` - generates a slug from a string. Word breaks are hyphenated. * `separator` defaults to '-' * `keyToLabel(str)` - converts a key to a label * e.g. `keyToLabel('myKey')` » `My Key` * `keyToPath(str, plural)` - converts a key to a path * Like `slug(keyToLabel(str))` but will optionally converts the last word to a plural. * e.g. `keyToPath('someThing', true)` » `some-things` * `keyToProperty(str, plural)` - Converts a key to a property. * Like `keyToPath` but converts to headlessCamelCase instead of dash-separated * `calculateDistance(point1 [lat, lng], point2 [lat, lng])` - Returns the distance between two `[lat,lng]` points in radians * `kmBetween` - Returns the distance between two `[lat,lng]` points in kilometers * `milesBetween` - Returns the distance between two `[lat,lng]` points in miles Credits ======= Uses the excellent underscore library, see http://underscorejs.org or `npm info underscore` Uses the inflect library for singular / plural conversion, see https://github.com/pksunkara/inflect or `npm info i` Some utils are borrowed from / inspired by `mongoose/utils.js`, see https://github.com/LearnBoost/mongoose HTML Entity encode / decode is based on code in `node-html-to-text`, see https://github.com/werk85/node-html-to-text The transliteration code is based on https://www.npmjs.org/package/transliteration.cyr