Tiny util to highlight given string in text. Written in TypeScript. Better alternative for highlight-words-core.

API

This package contains only one function exported as getChunks. This method searches for a given string in text and returns an array of chunks that describes the matches found. For example:

import { getChunks } from 'highlight-string';

const text = 'Have a nice day!';
const substrings = ['a', 'day'];

const chunks = getChunks({
  text,
  substrings,
});

const highlightedText = chunks
  .map(({ highlighted, text }) => (highlighted ? `<mark>${text}</mark>` : text))
  .join('');

getChunks

| Parameter | Required? | Default value | Type | Description | | ------------- | :-------: | ------------- | -------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | | text | ✅ | - | string | Text to search and highlight | | substrings | ✅ | - | Array<string> | Array of strings to search for | | caseSensitive | | false | boolean | Pass true if search should be case sensitive | | sanitize | | - | (text: string) => string | Sanitize function |

License

MIT