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email-validator
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Provides a fast, pretty robust e-mail validator. Only checks form, not function.
The email-validator npm package is a simple and straightforward tool for validating email addresses. It provides a single function to check if an email address is valid according to standard email format rules.
validate email
This feature allows you to validate an email address. The `validate` function returns `true` if the email address is valid and `false` otherwise.
const validator = require('email-validator');
const isValid = validator.validate('test@example.com');
console.log(isValid); // true
The `validator` package is a comprehensive library for string validation and sanitization. It includes a wide range of validators, including email validation. It is more feature-rich compared to `email-validator` and can handle various types of data validation.
The `email-verifier` package provides more advanced email verification features, including checking the existence of the email domain and the mailbox. It is more complex and offers more functionality compared to `email-validator`.
The `isemail` package is another library for validating email addresses. It offers more detailed validation options and can be configured to follow different email validation standards. It is more flexible compared to `email-validator`.
A simple module to validate an e-mail address
Install via NPM:
npm install email-validator
var validator = require("email-validator");
validator.validate("test@email.com"); // true
import * as EmailValidator from 'email-validator';
EmailValidator.validate("test@email.com"); // true
Contributions welcome! Check the LICENSE
file for more info.
Distributed under the unlicense public domain. See LICENSE
for more information.
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Provides a fast, pretty robust e-mail validator. Only checks form, not function.
The npm package email-validator receives a total of 614,399 weekly downloads. As such, email-validator popularity was classified as popular.
We found that email-validator demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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