boolean

boolean

boolean converts lots of things to boolean.

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Installation

$ npm install boolean

Quick start

First you need to add a reference to boolean in your application:

const { boolean, isBooleanable } = require('boolean');

If you use TypeScript, use the following code instead:

import { boolean, isBooleanable } from 'boolean';

To verify a value for its boolean value, call the boolean function and provide the value in question as parameter:

console.log(boolean('true')); // => true

The boolean function considers the following values to be equivalent to true:

• true (boolean)
• 'true' (string)
• 'TRUE' (string)
• 't' (string)
• 'T' (string)
• 'yes' (string)
• 'YES' (string)
• 'y' (string)
• 'Y' (string)
• 'on' (string)
• 'ON' (string)
• '1' (string)
• 1 (number)

In addition to the primitive types mentioned above, boolean also supports their object wrappers Boolean, String, and Number.

Please note that if you provide a string or a String object, it will be trimmed.

All other values, including undefined and null are considered to be false.

Figuring out whether a value can be considered to be boolean

From time to time, you may not want to directly convert a value to its boolean equivalent, but explicitly check whether it looks like a boolean. E.g., although boolean('F') returns false, the string F at least looks like a boolean, in contrast to something such as 123 (for which boolean(123) would also return false).

To figure out whether a value can be considered to be a boolean, use the isBooleanable function:

console.log(isBooleanable('true')); // => true

The isBooleanable function considers all of the above mentioned values to be reasonable boolean values, and additionally, also the following ones:

• false (boolean)
• 'false' (string)
• 'FALSE' (string)
• 'f' (string)
• 'F' (string)
• 'no' (string)
• 'NO' (string)
• 'n' (string)
• 'N' (string)
• 'off' (string)
• 'OFF' (string)
• '0' (string)
• 0 (number)

Running quality assurance

To run quality assurance for this module use roboter:

$ npx roboter

Similar packages

Other packages similar to boolean

to-bool

The 'to-bool' package is similar to 'boolean' in that it converts values to booleans. However, it may have different rules for conversion or additional/different features.

boolify

The 'boolify' package also converts values to booleans. It might offer a different API or conversion logic, which could make it more suitable for certain use cases compared to 'boolean'.