@wordpress/wordcount
A utility to count words
Installation
Install the module
npm install @wordpress/wordcount --save
Accepted Paramaters
count( text, type, userSettings )
count accepts three parameters:
- text: A string containing the words/characters to be counted.
- type: A string that represents the type of count. The current implementation accepts the strings 'words', 'characters_excluding_spaces', or 'characters_including_spaces'.
- userSettings: An object that contains the list of regular expressions that will be used to count. See defaultSettings.js for the defaults.
Usage
import { count } from '@wordpress/wordcount';
const numberOfWords = count( 'Words to count', 'words', {} )