@types/accept-language-parser

What is @types/accept-language-parser?

@types/accept-language-parser provides TypeScript type definitions for the accept-language-parser package, which is used to parse the Accept-Language header from HTTP requests. This package helps in determining the preferred languages of a user based on their browser settings.

What are @types/accept-language-parser's main functionalities?

Parse Accept-Language Header

This feature allows you to parse the Accept-Language header from an HTTP request. The code sample demonstrates how to parse a given Accept-Language header string and output the parsed languages.

const acceptLanguageParser = require('accept-language-parser');
const header = 'en-GB,en;q=0.8,fr;q=0.7';
const languages = acceptLanguageParser.parse(header);
console.log(languages);

Get Best Match

This feature allows you to determine the best match from a list of supported languages based on the Accept-Language header. The code sample shows how to find the best match from a list of supported languages.

const acceptLanguageParser = require('accept-language-parser');
const header = 'en-GB,en;q=0.8,fr;q=0.7';
const supportedLanguages = ['en', 'fr'];
const bestMatch = acceptLanguageParser.pick(supportedLanguages, header);
console.log(bestMatch);

Other packages similar to @types/accept-language-parser

negotiator

The negotiator package provides content negotiation utilities for HTTP servers. It can parse Accept, Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, and Accept-Language headers. Compared to accept-language-parser, negotiator offers a broader range of content negotiation features.

locale

The locale package is used to determine the user's locale based on the Accept-Language header. It provides similar functionality to accept-language-parser but focuses more on locale determination rather than just language parsing.

README

Installation

npm install --save @types/accept-language-parser

Summary

This package contains type definitions for accept-language-parser (https://github.com/opentable/accept-language-parser).

Details

Files were exported from https://www.github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/types/accept-language-parser

Additional Details

• Last updated: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:56:12 GMT
• Dependencies: none
• Global values: none

Credits

These definitions were written by Niklas Wulf https://github.com/kampfgnom.