format-people

format-people

Format a list of authors, contributors, or collaborators.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save format-people

Usage

var format = require('format-people');

API

format

Format a list of people like objects (e.g. authors, contributors, and collaborators) into the specified format.

Params

• arr {Array}: Array of people objects.
• options {Object}: Additional options
• options.format {String}: Formatter function used to format the array. See formatters for more details.
• returns {Mixed}: Formatted array of people. Returned type depends on formatter.

Example

var people = [
  { name: 'Brian Woodward' }
];
var table = format(people, {format: 'table'});
console.log(table);

Formatters

.noop

Returns the array as-is without any formatting.

Params

• arr {Array}: Array of people to format.
• returns {Array}: Unmodified array of people.

Example

var people = [
  { login: 'doowb' }
];
var formatted = formatters.noop(people);
console.log(formatted);
//=> [{login: 'doowb'}]

.table

Returns the array of people formatted as a markdown table.

Params

• arr {Array}: Array of people to format.
• returns {String}: Markdown table

Example

var people = [
  { login: 'doowb', contributions: 100, html_url: 'https://github.com/doowb' },
  { login: 'jonschlinkert', contributions: 50, html_url: 'https://github.com/jonschlinkert' }
];
var formatted = formatters.table(people);
console.log(formatted);
//=> | **Commits** | **Contributor**<br/> |
//=> | --- | --- |
//=> | 100 | [doowb](https://github.com/doowb) |
//=> | 50 | [jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) |

.list

Returns the array of people formatted as a markdown list.

Params

• arr {Array}: Array of people to format.
• returns {String}: Markdown list

Example

var people = [
  { login: 'doowb', contributions: 100, html_url: 'https://github.com/doowb' },
  { login: 'jonschlinkert', contributions: 50, html_url: 'https://github.com/jonschlinkert' }
];
var formatted = formatters.list(people);
console.log(formatted);
//=> **Commits** / **Contributor**
//=> + 100 [doowb](https://github.com/doowb)
//=> + 50 [jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert)

.aligned

Returns the array of people formatted as an aligned code block.

Params

• arr {Array}: Array of people to format.
• returns {String}: Markdown code block for alignment

Example

var people = [
  { login: 'doowb', contributions: 100, html_url: 'https://github.com/doowb' },
  { login: 'jonschlinkert', contributions: 50, html_url: 'https://github.com/jonschlinkert' }
];
var formatted = formatters.aligned(people);
console.log(formatted);
//=> COMMITS / CONTRIBUTOR
//=> ------- | -----------
//=> 100      doowb
//=> 50      jonschlinkert

About

Related projects

• github-base: JavaScript wrapper that greatly simplifies working with GitHub's API. | homepage
• github-contributors: Generate a markdown or JSON list of contributors for a project using the GitHub API. | homepage

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Please read the contributing guide for avice on opening issues, pull requests, and coding standards.

Building docs

(This document was generated by verb-generate-readme (a verb generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in .verb.md.)

To generate the readme and API documentation with verb:

$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Brian Woodward

• github/doowb
• twitter/doowb

License

Copyright © 2016, Brian Woodward. Released under the MIT license.

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