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A JavaScript toolkit to handle Hong Kong Identity Card (HKID) numbers, validate and generate random HKID numbers.
()aAbCnpm install hkid-utils
or
yarn add hkid-utils
const hkidUtils = require('hkid-utils');
// Validate HKID number
hkidUtils.validate('G123456(A)'); // true
hkidUtils.validate('aB987654(3)'); // true
hkidUtils.validate('X3459387'); // true
hkidUtils.validate('123(A)4') // false
// Generate random HKID number
hkidUtils.random(); // 'A123456(7)'
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A library to handle Hong Kong ID card number
We found that hkid-utils 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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