An NPM package to validate form fields

I have published a post some days ago on How to Create and Publish Your First NPM Package. I realize that publishing an npm package is super easy. I have decided to create a form field validator in a very easy manner and ask developers to contribute to that.

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I have created an npm library and published it to NPM and Github to validate form fields very easily. Let’s see what it can do?

Installation

npm install is-validate

Import

Method 1 to import

const { isEmail } =  require("is-validate")

Method 2 to import

const isValidate = require('is-validate');

All methods

- isEmail

Example:

//method 1
const { isEmail } =  require("is-validate")
console.log(isEmail('[email protected]'))
// true

// method 2
const isValidate = require('is-validate');
console.log(isValidate.isEmail('[email protected]'))
// true

All other functions will work, So I am not going to provide examples for each method

- isPhone

- isUrl

- isDate

- isTime

- isNumber

- isString

- isObject

- isBoolean

- isType

- isContain

Example:

console.log(isContains('Hello world', 'Hello'))

Package code

/*
 * This method accepts a string as its argument and returns true or false whether given string is email or not
*/
const isEmail = (email) => {
    let re = /^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+)*)|(".+"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/.test(String(email).toLowerCase());
    return re;
}

/*
 * This method accepts a string as its argument and returns true or false whether a given string is phone or not
*/
const isPhone = (phone) => {
    let is_phone = /^[\+]?[(]?[0-9]{3}[)]?[-\s\.]?[0-9]{3}[-\s\.]?[0-9]{4,6}$/im.test(phone);
    return is_phone;
}

/*
 * This method accepts a string as its argument and returns true or false whether given string is URL or not
*/
const isUrl = (string) => {
    let url;
    try { url = new URL(string); } catch (_) { return false; }
    return url.protocol === "http:" || url.protocol === "https:";
}
/*
 * This method accepts a string as its argument and returns true or false whether given string is date or not
*/
const isDate = (date) => {
    return (new Date(date) !== "Invalid Date") && !isNaN(new Date(date));
}
/*
 * This method accepts a string as its argument and returns true or false whether given string is time or not HH: MM
*/
const isTime = (time) => {
    var isValid = /^([0-1][0-9]|2[0-3]):([0-5][0-9])$/.test(time);
    return isValid;
}

/*
 * This method given argument is number or not
*/
const isNumber = (number) => {
    if(typeof number == 'number'){ return true;}
    return false;
}

/*
 * This method given argument is a string or not
*/

const isString = (string) => {
    if(typeof string == 'string'){ return true;}
    return false;
}

/*
 * This method given argument is boolean or not
*/
const isBoolean = (boolean) => {
    if(typeof boolean == 'boolean'){ return true;}
    return false;
}

/*
 * This method given argument is object or not
*/
const isObject = (object) => {
    if(typeof object == 'object'){ return true;}
    return false;
}

/*
 * This method will return the type of argument passed
*/

const isType = (data) => {
    return typeof data;
}
/*
 * This method will return true or false based on a string containing a substring.
*/

const isContains = (string, substring) => {
    return string.includes(substring)
}

module.exports = {
    isEmail, isPhone, isUrl, isDate, isTime, isNumber, isString, isObject, isBoolean, isType, isContains
};

In the index.js file I have written code for validation and defined functions to perform validation.

Why contribute?

This is the first question that comes to mind whenever we think to start contributing to an open-source project. Refer to this URL to read why you should need to contribute to an open-source.

How to contribute?

This is a super easy package for form fields validation and I think it is very useful while developing any application. To contribute with me you need to do the following steps.

• Clone repo from Github

git clone https://github.com/harendra21/is-validate

• Create a future branch

You have to create a new branch with the name feature-validate-email

• Add a new function to index.js and export it

• Test newly created function

To test your package locally (very important) you have to set the environment. Please refer to this article’s testing part.

• Push code

• Done

After that, I will manually review the code and merge it with master and publish changes to NPM.

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