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A simple string builder. I sometimes found myself writting code like the following example:

// Huh
const text = `
  Report for ${projectName}:
  [${'='.repeat(progress)}${' '.repeat(rest)}] (${percent}%)

  Time spent: ${timeSpent}
  Lines: ${lines}
`;

The issue with this will be the broken indentation and the spaces at the start and the end. I wish there was a better way to build strings, but there is no clean method.

That is why I made this fluent string builder, which I will update according to my needs. With Text, you can do this:

// Do this
const text = Text.make(`Report for ${projectName}:`)
  .append('[')
  .append('='.repeat(progress))
  .append(' '.repeat(rest))
  .append(']')
  .append('(', percent, '%)')
  .line()
  .line('Time spent: ', timeSpent)
  .line('Lines: ', lines);

// Or just this
const text = Text.template(`
  Report for ${projectName}:
  [${'='.repeat(progress)}${' '.repeat(rest)}] (${percent}%)

  Time spent: ${timeSpent}
  Lines: ${lines}
`);

Additionally, the library offer a few more useful string manipulation methods, inspired by the Str utilities of the Laravel framework.

Usage

Install it via the NPM registry:

# Yarn
$ yarn add @supportjs/text

# NPM
$ npm i @supportjs/text

The library exposes a single Text object, which is the string builder. You can either instantiate it normally, or call the static make method.

import { Text } from '@supportjs/text';

// This is the same
const text = Text.make('some optional text');

// as this
const text = new Text('some optional text');

Static

make

Creates a new instance of the builder. The builder can be used to fluently chain methods, in order to pleasantly manipulate text.

Text.make('hello world');

template

Creates a new instance of the builder, from a template string. It will trim spaces for each line.

Text.template(`
  Hello
  from
  template
  string
`);

random

Generates a random alpha-numeric string.

Text.random(8);
// => AM5Ysvv8

Public

There are a lot of methods available, each of them are documented with examples. Until I find a way to generate a nice documentation website based on the TSDoc comments, you will have to refer to them in the source. Though, for convenience, I added their names below.

Builder methods

• space
• newLine
• times
• append
• appendIf
• concat
• appendLine
• line
• lineIf
• prepend
• prependIf
• prependLine
• appendLines
• prependLines
• trimLines

Manipulation methods

• before
• beforeLast
• after
• afterLast
• between
• inside
• finish
• start
• lower
• lowerFirst
• upper
• upperFirst
• words
• kebabCase
• snakeCase
• camelCase
• pascalCase
• case
• isUuid
• map
• each

Original string methods

• trimLeft
• trimRight
• toLowerCase
• toUpperCase
• substr
• toLocaleLowerCase
• toLocaleUpperCase
• normalize
• split
• slice
• repeat
• padStart
• padEnd
• replace
• charAt
• charCodeAt
• match
• includes
• startsWith
• endsWith
• length

Contributions

Contributions are welcome, if you want to add useful methods. If you contribute, make sure to:

• Only add one feature per pull request
• Respect the style, there is a .prettierrc and a .editorconfig
• Write meaningful tests

Thank you!