inflected

What is inflected?

The 'inflected' npm package provides a set of utility functions for inflecting words in the English language. This includes converting between singular and plural forms, camelizing and underscoring strings, and more.

What are inflected's main functionalities?

Pluralize

This feature allows you to convert a singular noun to its plural form.

const inflected = require('inflected');
console.log(inflected.pluralize('person')); // Outputs: people

Singularize

This feature allows you to convert a plural noun to its singular form.

const inflected = require('inflected');
console.log(inflected.singularize('people')); // Outputs: person

Camelize

This feature converts strings to CamelCase.

const inflected = require('inflected');
console.log(inflected.camelize('active_model')); // Outputs: ActiveModel

Underscore

This feature converts CamelCase strings to snake_case.

const inflected = require('inflected');
console.log(inflected.underscore('ActiveModel')); // Outputs: active_model

Humanize

This feature converts snake_case strings to human-readable format.

const inflected = require('inflected');
console.log(inflected.humanize('employee_salary')); // Outputs: Employee salary

Other packages similar to inflected

pluralize

The 'pluralize' package provides similar functionality for converting between singular and plural forms of words. It is more focused on pluralization and singularization compared to 'inflected', which offers a broader range of string manipulation utilities.

change-case

The 'change-case' package offers a variety of functions for changing the case of strings, such as camelCase, snake_case, and more. It is similar to 'inflected' in terms of string case manipulation but does not offer pluralization or singularization features.

lodash

The 'lodash' package is a utility library that provides a wide range of functions for manipulating arrays, objects, and strings. While it includes some string manipulation functions similar to 'inflected', it is a more comprehensive utility library with a broader scope.

README

inflected

A port of ActiveSupport's inflector to Node.js.