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. Also usable in the browser.

Installation

Install via npm:

% npm install inflected

Or via yarn:

% yarn add inflected

The UMD build is also available on unpkg, adding a Inflector object to the global scope.

<script src="https://unpkg.com/inflected/dist/umd/inflected.min.js"></script>

Usage

The module exports an object with several utility functions.

var Inflector = require('inflected');

Inflector.pluralize('Category')  // => 'Categories'

If using ES modules, you can cherry-pick only the functions you're interested in:

import { pluralize } from 'inflected';

pluralize('Category')  // => 'Categories'

Here is the complete API reference:

Inflector.pluralize

string pluralize(string word[, string locale])

Returns the plural form of the word in the string.

If passed an optional locale parameter, the word will be pluralized using rules defined for that language. By default, this parameter is set to "en".

Inflector.pluralize('post')          // => 'posts'
Inflector.pluralize('octopus')       // => 'octopi'
Inflector.pluralize('sheep')         // => 'sheep'
Inflector.pluralize('words')         // => 'words'
Inflector.pluralize('CamelOctopus')  // => 'CamelOctopi'
Inflector.pluralize('ley', 'es')     // => 'leyes'

Inflector.singularize

string singularize(string word[, string locale])

The reverse of pluralize, returns the singular form of a word in a string.

If passed an optional locale parameter, the word will be singularized using rules defined for that language. By default, this parameter is set to "en".

Inflector.singularize('posts')        // => 'post'
Inflector.singularize('octopi')       // => 'octopus'
Inflector.singularize('sheep')        // => 'sheep'
Inflector.singularize('word')         // => 'word'
Inflector.singularize('CamelOctopi')  // => 'CamelOctopus'
Inflector.singularize('leyes', 'es')  // => 'ley'

Inflector.camelize

string camelize(string term[, boolean uppercaseFirstLetter])

By default, camelize converts strings to UpperCamelCase. If the second argument is set to false then camelize produces lowerCamelCase.

Inflector.camelize('foo_bar')         // => 'FooBar'
Inflector.camelize('foo_bar', false)  // => 'fooBar'

As a rule of thumb you can think of camelize as the inverse of underscore, though there are cases where that does not hold:

Inflector.camelize(Inflector.underscore('SSLError'))  // => 'SslError'

Inflector.underscore

string underscore(string camelCasedWord)

Makes an underscored, lowercase form from the expression in the string.

Inflector.underscore('FooBar')  // => 'foo_bar'

As a rule of thumb you can think of underscore as the inverse of camelize, though there are cases where that does not hold:

Inflector.camelize(Inflector.underscore('SSLError'))  // => 'SslError'

Inflector.humanize

string humanize(string lowerCaseAndUnderscoredWord[, object options])

Capitalizes the first word, turns underscores into spaces, and strips a trailing "_id" if present.

Like titleize, this is meant for creating pretty output.

The capitalization of the first word can be turned off by setting the capitalize option key to false. By default, this option is true.

Inflector.humanize('employee_salary')                   // => 'Employee salary'
Inflector.humanize('author_id')                         // => 'Author'
Inflector.humanize('author_id', { capitalize: false })  // => 'author'

Inflector.titleize

string titleize(string sentence)

Capitalizes all the words and replaces some characters in the string to create a nicer looking title. titleize is meant for creating pretty output.

Inflector.titleize('man from the boondocks')   // => 'Man From The Boondocks'
Inflector.titleize('x-men: the last stand')    // => 'X Men: The Last Stand'
Inflector.titleize('TheManWithoutAPast')       // => 'The Man Without A Past'
Inflector.titleize('raiders_of_the_lost_ark')  // => 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark'

Inflector.tableize

string tableize(string className)

Create the name of a table like Rails does for models to table names. This method uses the pluralize method on the last word in the string.

Inflector.tableize('RawScaledScorer')  // => 'raw_scaled_scorers'
Inflector.tableize('egg_and_ham')      // => 'egg_and_hams'
Inflector.tableize('fancyCategory')    // => 'fancy_categories'

Inflector.classify

string classify(string tableName)

Create a class name from a plural table name like Rails does for table names to models.

Inflector.classify('egg_and_hams')  // => 'EggAndHam'
Inflector.classify('posts')         // => 'Post'

Singular names are not handled correctly:

Inflector.classify('business')  // => 'Busines'

Inflector.dasherize

string dasherize(string underscoredWord)

Replaces underscores with dashes in the string.

Inflector.dasherize('puni_puni')  // => 'puni-puni'

Inflector.foreignKey

string foreignKey(string className[, boolean separateClassNameAndIdWithUnderscore])

Creates a foreign key name from a class name. separateClassNameAndIdWithUnderscore sets whether the method should put "_" between the name and "id" (default: true).

Inflector.foreignKey('Message')         // => 'message_id'
Inflector.foreignKey('Message', false)  // => 'messageid'

Inflector.ordinal

string ordinal(object number)

Returns the suffix that should be added to a number to denote the position in an ordered sequence such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.

Inflector.ordinal(1)      // => 'st'
Inflector.ordinal(2)      // => 'nd'
Inflector.ordinal(1002)   // => 'nd'
Inflector.ordinal(1003)   // => 'rd'
Inflector.ordinal(-11)    // => 'th'
Inflector.ordinal(-1021)  // => 'st'

Inflector.ordinalize

string ordinalize(object number)

Turns a number into an ordinal string used to denote the position in an ordered sequence such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.

Inflector.ordinalize(1)      // => '1st'
Inflector.ordinalize(2)      // => '2nd'
Inflector.ordinalize(1002)   // => '1002nd'
Inflector.ordinalize(1003)   // => '1003rd'
Inflector.ordinalize(-11)    // => '-11th'
Inflector.ordinalize(-1021)  // => '-1021st'

Inflector.inflections

Inflections inflections([string locale])
inflections([string locale], [function(Inflections) fn])

A singleton instance of the internal Inflections class is yielded by this function, which can then be used to specify additional inflection rules. If passed an optional locale, rules for other languages can be specified. The default locale is "en". Only rules for English are provided by this library.

Inflector.inflections('en', function(inflect) {
  inflect.plural(/^(ox)$/i, '$1$2en');
  inflect.singular /^(ox)en/i, '$1');

  inflect.irregular('octopus', 'octopi');

  inflect.uncountable('equipment', 'snow');
});

New rules are added at the top. So in the example above, the irregular rule for octopus will now be the first of the pluralization and singularization rules that is run. This guarantees that your rules run before any of the rules that may already have been loaded.

Inflector.transliterate

string transliterate(string sentence[, object options])

Replaces non-ASCII characters with an ASCII approximation, or if none exists, a replacement character which defaults to "?".

Inflector.transliterate('Ærøskøbing')  // => 'AEroskobing'

Default approximations are provided for Western/Latin characters, e.g, "ø", "ñ", "é", "ß", etc.

This method is I18n-aware, so you can set up custom approximations for a locale. This can be useful, for example, to transliterate German's "ü" and "ö" to "ue" and "oe", or to add support for transliterating Russian to ASCII.

In order to make your custom transliterations available, you must set them using the approximate helper function:

Inflector.transliterations('de', function(t) {
  t.approximate('ü', 'ue');
  t.approximate('ö', 'oe');
});

Now you can have different transliterations for each locale:

Inflector.transliterate('Jürgen')                    // => 'Jurgen'
Inflector.transliterate('Jürgen', { locale: 'de' })  // => 'Juergen'

Inflector.parameterize

string parameterize(string sentence[, object options])

Replaces special characters in a string so that it may be used as part of a 'pretty' URL.

Inflector.parameterize('Donald E. Knuth')                      // => 'donald-e-knuth'
Inflector.parameterize('Donald E. Knuth', { separator: '+' })  // => 'donald+e+knuth'

As of v2.1, there's also a preserveCase option:

Inflector.parameterize('Donald E. Knuth', { preserveCase: true })  // => 'Donald+E+Knuth'

Inflector.constantify

string constantify(string words)

Converts words (camelCased, under_scored, or dasherized) to CONSTANT_CASE.

Inflector.constantify('bankAccount')   // => 'BANK_ACCOUNT'
Inflector.constantify('bank-account')  // => 'BANK_ACCOUNT'
Inflector.constantify('bank_account')  // => 'BANK_ACCOUNT'
Inflector.constantify('Bank Account')  // => 'BANK_ACCOUNT'

Contributing

Here's a quick guide:

1. Fork the repo and make install.
2. Run the tests. We only take pull requests with passing tests, and it's great to know that you have a clean slate: make test.
3. Add a test for your change. Only refactoring and documentation changes require no new tests. If you are adding functionality or are fixing a bug, we need a test!
4. Make the test pass.
5. Push to your fork and submit a pull request.

Licence

Released under The MIT License.