What is change-case?
The change-case package is a utility library that provides various functions to transform strings between different cases, such as camel case, snake case, kebab case, and more. It is useful for formatting strings in different coding conventions or textual formats.
What are change-case's main functionalities?
camelCase
Converts a string to camel case.
const { camelCase } = require('change-case');
console.log(camelCase('test string')); // 'testString'
snakeCase
Converts a string to snake case.
const { snakeCase } = require('change-case');
console.log(snakeCase('test string')); // 'test_string'
kebabCase
Converts a string to kebab case.
const { kebabCase } = require('change-case');
console.log(kebabCase('test string')); // 'test-string'
titleCase
Converts a string to title case.
const { titleCase } = require('change-case');
console.log(titleCase('test string')); // 'Test String'
constantCase
Converts a string to constant case.
const { constantCase } = require('change-case');
console.log(constantCase('test string')); // 'TEST_STRING'
Other packages similar to change-case
lodash
Lodash is a comprehensive utility library that includes methods for string case transformation, such as _.camelCase, _.snakeCase, and _.kebabCase. It offers a wider range of utilities beyond string case conversion, making it more versatile but also larger in size compared to change-case.
case
The 'case' package is another string case conversion library that supports various case transformations. It is similar to change-case but has a different API and may have different case conversion implementations.
string-case
String-case is a library that provides case conversion functions similar to change-case. It may offer a different set of features or API design, which could be preferred by some developers over change-case.
Change Case
Transform a string between camelCase
, PascalCase
, Capital Case
, snake_case
, kebab-case
, CONSTANT_CASE
and others.
Installation
npm install change-case --save
Usage
import * as changeCase from "change-case";
changeCase.camelCase("TEST_VALUE");
Included case functions:
Method | Result |
---|
camelCase | twoWords |
capitalCase | Two Words |
constantCase | TWO_WORDS |
dotCase | two.words |
kebabCase | two-words |
noCase | two words |
pascalCase | TwoWords |
pascalSnakeCase | Two_Words |
pathCase | two/words |
sentenceCase | Two words |
snakeCase | two_words |
trainCase | Two-Words |
All methods accept an options
object as the second argument:
delimiter?: string
The character to use between words. Default depends on method, e.g. _
in snake case.locale?: string[] | string | false
Lower/upper according to specified locale, defaults to host environment. Set to false
to disable.split?: (value: string) => string[]
A function to define how the input is split into words. Defaults to split
.prefixCharacters?: string
Retain at the beginning of the string. Defaults to ""
. Example: use "_"
to keep the underscores in __typename
.suffixCharacters?: string
Retain at the end of the string. Defaults to ""
. Example: use "_"
to keep the underscore in type_
.
By default, pascalCase
and snakeCase
separate ambiguous characters with _
. For example, V1.2
would become V1_2
instead of V12
. If you prefer them merged you can set mergeAmbiguousCharacters
to true
.
Split
Change case exports a split
utility which can be used to build other case functions. It accepts a string and returns each "word" as an array. For example:
split("fooBar")
.map((x) => x.toLowerCase())
.join("_");
Change Case Keys
import * as changeKeys from "change-case/keys";
changeKeys.camelCase({ TEST_KEY: true });
Change case keys wraps around the core methods to transform object keys to any case.
API
- input: any Any JavaScript value.
- depth: number Specify the depth to transfer for case transformation. Defaults to
1
. - options: object Same as base case library.
TypeScript and ESM
This package is a pure ESM package and ships with TypeScript definitions. It cannot be require
'd or used with CommonJS module resolution in TypeScript.
License
MIT