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A lossless slug that preserves uniqueness.
An example use case for aslug
would be a set of ids that have to be made safe for some character set, while maintaining readability and ensuring they won't conflict with other valid ids. Hence, aslug
:
new Slug(alphabet?: string | null, options?: Slug.Options)
The Slug
class optionally takes an alphabet
string and an options
object.
alphabet
defaults to: '0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-'
options
fields include:
separator
to be used between the readable string and the payload. Defaults to '.'
.map
function to determine the strategy to use when replacing characters with a string within alphabet
-otherwise an empty string. It can be used to remove diacritics, leave empty, or any other alternative. Defaults to replacing characters for their ASCII equivalent, if in alphabet
.import { Slug } from 'aslug';
const slug = new Slug();
slug.encode('string w/ special chars'); // string-w-special-chars.EjhdB6y8T2PsDU0e6zUv
slug.decode('string-w-special-chars.EjhdB6y8T2PsDU0e6zUv'); // string w/ special chars
FAQs
A lossless slug that preserves uniqueness
The npm package aslug receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, aslug popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that aslug demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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