Remove diacritics from a string

Usage

CommonJS

const diac = require('@marcg68/nondiacritic')

const str = 'Über ähnlich'

console.log(diac.removeDiacritics(str))

console.log(diac.removeDiacritics(str, { ucfirst: true }))

outputs

{ original: 'Über ähnlich', replaced: 'UEber aehnlich' }
{ original: 'Über ähnlich', replaced: 'Ueber aehnlich' }

ES6

import { removeDiacritics } from '@marcg68/nondiacritic'

const str = 'Über ähnlich'

console.log(removeDiacritics(str))

outputs

{ original: 'Über ähnlich', replaced: 'UEber aehnlich' }

Intro

Based on https://github.com/andrewrk/node-diacritics/

Refs

• https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/how-to-build-test-and-release-node-module-es6/
• https://github.com/whitep4nth3r/random-code/blob/main/src/index.js
• https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-publish-an-es6-module-to-npm-43dda8aabbf
• https://medium.com/@alexishevia/the-magic-behind-npm-link-d94dcb3a81af

Setup

Using npm

npm init --scope=@marcg68
npm install --save-dev babel-cli babel-preset-es2015

Write the code in src/index.js, with the following single code line in the entry point app.js:

module.exports = require('./dist')

Add "build": "babel src -d dist"

to top level "scripts" key in package.json, which when

npm run build

is run, will compile the src and place into dist.

Testing

npm link # allows the module to be loaded from anywhere on the same machine

In a another directory on the same box, initialise a project with npm and link the module.

npm init -y
npm link @marcg68/nondiacritic

On the commandline:

node -e ';(async () => console.log((await import("@marcg68/nondiacritic")).removeDiacritics("Über ähnlich")))()'

should output:

{ original: 'Über ähnlich', replaced: 'UEber aehnlich' }

Publishing

npm publish --access public