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Useful heuristics, type checks, and validation helpers for JavaScript and TypeScript
heuristics
is a library of useful heuristics, type checks, and validation helpers for JavaScript and TypeScript. Instead of repeatedly validating types (here, we mean type guards, not annotations), evaluating whether or not an API response is null (or indeed an object, only entirely empty), you can depend on this tested, consistent library API to get the job done.
npm install heuristics
OR
yarn add heuristics
heuristics
currently supports UMD, CommonJS (node versions >= 10), and ESM build-targets
Commonjs:
const { } = require('heuristics');
ESM:
import { } from 'heuristics';
FAQs
Useful heuristics, type checks, and validation helpers for JavaScript and TypeScript
We found that heuristics demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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