react-trim-words

Trims text to a certain number of words.

Install

Via npm

npm install react-trim-words

Via Yarn

yarn add react-trim-words

Usage

Import Package in Node.js

var trimWords = require("react-trim-words");

Import Package in React

import { trimWords } from 'react-trim-words';

Example

Trims text to a certain number of words in Node.js.

var trimWords = require("react-trim-words");

var text = '<h1>What is Geostatistics?</h1> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis tincidunt quam ut ligula ullamcorper interdum. Nulla malesuada purus tristique justo tristique, id posuere purus tristique. Pellentesque non magna ut libero elementum interdum vel vitae ante. Sed porta auctor urna eget venenatis. Mauris nec convallis metus. Sed at dui elit. Donec rhoncus justo neque, finibus commodo dui posuere ut. Maecenas in mi enim. Quisque maximus enim nunc.</p> <p>Donec eu ultricies ipsum. Fusce eget pellentesque urna. Vestibulum lacinia laoreet mi nec posuere. Duis vel elit elementum, scelerisque eros a, sodales eros. Praesent hendrerit neque velit, nec pretium ipsum finibus facilisis. Proin ultricies sem in sapien consectetur dictum.</p>';

var trimmedText = trimWords(text, 80, '...');

console.log('Original Text is: ', text);
console.log('Trimmed Text is: ', trimmedText);

Trims text to a certain number of words in React.

import { trimWords } from 'react-trim-words';

var text = '<h1>What is Geostatistics?</h1> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis tincidunt quam ut ligula ullamcorper interdum. Nulla malesuada purus tristique justo tristique, id posuere purus tristique. Pellentesque non magna ut libero elementum interdum vel vitae ante. Sed porta auctor urna eget venenatis. Mauris nec convallis metus. Sed at dui elit. Donec rhoncus justo neque, finibus commodo dui posuere ut. Maecenas in mi enim. Quisque maximus enim nunc.</p> <p>Donec eu ultricies ipsum. Fusce eget pellentesque urna. Vestibulum lacinia laoreet mi nec posuere. Duis vel elit elementum, scelerisque eros a, sodales eros. Praesent hendrerit neque velit, nec pretium ipsum finibus facilisis. Proin ultricies sem in sapien consectetur dictum.</p>';

var trimmedText = trimWords(text, 80, '...');

console.log('Original Text is: ', text);
console.log('Trimmed Text is: ', trimmedText);

Parameters

Attributes	Type	Required	Description
text	String	Yes	Text to trim.
numWords	String	No	Number of words. Default value is 55.
more	String	No	What to append if $text needs to be trimmed. Default '…'.

Return

Trimmed text.

Tested

This package is tested with the Node.js and React Application.