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annostring
provides a set of string utilities for JavaScript. The functions have been annotated and provide nice runtime errors. This might have a slight effect on performance, though, but I believe the convenience is worth it.
annostring
is available under MIT. See LICENSE for more details.
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Annotated string utilities for JavaScript
The npm package annostring receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, annostring popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that annostring demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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