inflection

What is inflection?

The inflection npm package is a utility library that provides functions for transforming words between singular, plural, camel case, underscore, human-readable, and other forms. It is useful for developers who need to manipulate and format strings, particularly in the context of programming languages that use different naming conventions for variables, classes, and database entries.

What are inflection's main functionalities?

Pluralization and Singularization

Converts words from singular to plural and vice versa.

const inflection = require('inflection');

const singular = inflection.singularize('posts');
const plural = inflection.pluralize('post');

Camelizing and Underscoring

Converts strings to camel case or underscored form, useful for naming conventions in programming.

const inflection = require('inflection');

const camelized = inflection.camelize('message_properties');
const underscored = inflection.underscore('MessageProperties');

Humanizing

Transforms underscored strings into a human-readable form, often used for UI labels or titles.

const inflection = require('inflection');

const humanized = inflection.humanize('employee_id');

Titleizing

Capitalizes all the words and replaces some characters in the string to create a title.

const inflection = require('inflection');

const titleized = inflection.titleize('man from the boondocks');

Dasherizing

Replaces underscores with dashes in the string.

const inflection = require('inflection');

const dasherized = inflection.dasherize('puni_puni');

Other packages similar to inflection

pluralize

The 'pluralize' package is similar to inflection in that it provides pluralization and singularization of English nouns. It is a smaller and more focused library compared to inflection, which offers a broader range of string manipulation functions.

change-case

The 'change-case' package is a collection of utilities that allow for various string transformations, including camel case, snake case, title case, and more. It offers similar case transformation features to inflection but is part of a larger suite of case manipulation functions.

underscore.string

The 'underscore.string' package is an extension to the Underscore.js utility belt that provides additional string manipulation functions. It has some overlap with inflection in terms of string case transformations and humanizing strings, but it also includes a wide range of additional string functions not found in inflection.

README

inflection

A package to transform english strings into other forms like the plural form, singular form, camelCase form, etc.

Description

This package was originally a port of inflection-js, which is a port of the functionality from Ruby on Rails' Active Support Inflection classes into Javascript.

Note: This library uses Wiktionary as its reference.

Requires

Checkout package.json for dependencies.

Angular Support

Checkout ngInflection from konsumer

Meteor Support

Checkout Meteor Inflector from Veaceslav Cotruta

Installation

Install inflection through npm

npm install inflection

API

• inflection.pluralize( str, plural );
• inflection.singularize( str, singular );
• inflection.inflect( str, count, singular, plural );
• inflection.camelize( str, low_first_letter );
• inflection.underscore( str, all_upper_case );
• inflection.humanize( str, low_first_letter );
• inflection.capitalize( str );
• inflection.dasherize( str );
• inflection.titleize( str );
• inflection.demodulize( str );
• inflection.tableize( str );
• inflection.classify( str );
• inflection.foreign_key( str, drop_id_ubar );
• inflection.ordinalize( str );
• inflection.transform( str, arr );

Usage

Require the module before using

const inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.pluralize( str, plural );

This function adds pluralization support to every String object.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

plural

type: String
desc: Overrides normal output with said String.(optional)

Example code

var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.pluralize( 'person' ); // === 'people'
inflection.pluralize( 'octopus' ); // === "octopi"
inflection.pluralize( 'Hat' ); // === 'Hats'
inflection.pluralize( 'person', 'guys' ); // === 'guys'

inflection.singularize( str, singular );

This function adds singularization support to every String object.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

singular

type: String
desc: Overrides normal output with said String.(optional)

Example code

var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.singularize( 'people' ); // === 'person'
inflection.singularize( 'octopi' ); // === "octopus"
inflection.singularize( 'Hats' ); // === 'Hat'
inflection.singularize( 'guys', 'person' ); // === 'person'

inflection.inflect( str, count, singular, plural );

This function will pluralize or singularlize a String appropriately based on an integer value.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

count

type: Number
desc: The number to base pluralization off of.

singular

type: String
desc: Overrides normal output with said String.(optional)

plural

type: String
desc: Overrides normal output with said String.(optional)

Example code

	var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

	inflection.inflect( 'people', 1 ); // === 'person'
	inflection.inflect( 'octopi', 1 ); // === 'octopus'
	inflection.inflect( 'Hats', 1 ); // === 'Hat'
	inflection.inflect( 'guys', 1 , 'person' ); // === 'person'
	inflection.inflect( 'person', 2 ); // === 'people'
	inflection.inflect( 'octopus', 2 ); // === 'octopi'
	inflection.inflect( 'Hat', 2 ); // === 'Hats'
	inflection.inflect( 'person', 2, null, 'guys' ); // === 'guys'

inflection.camelize( str, low_first_letter );

This function transforms String object from underscore to camelcase.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

low_first_letter

type: Boolean
desc: Default is to capitalize the first letter of the results. Passing true will lowercase it. (optional)

Example code

var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.camelize( 'message_properties' ); // === 'MessageProperties'
inflection.camelize( 'message_properties', true ); // === 'messageProperties'

inflection.underscore( str, all_upper_case );

This function transforms String object from camelcase to underscore.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

all_upper_case

type: Boolean
desc: Default is to lowercase and add underscore prefix

Example code

var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.underscore( 'MessageProperties' ); // === 'message_properties'
inflection.underscore( 'messageProperties' ); // === 'message_properties'
inflection.underscore( 'MP' ); // === 'm_p'
inflection.underscore( 'MP', true ); // === 'MP'

inflection.humanize( str, low_first_letter );

This function adds humanize support to every String object.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

low_first_letter

type: Boolean
desc: Default is to capitalize the first letter of the results. Passing true will lowercase it. (optional)

Example code

var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.humanize( 'message_properties' ); // === 'Message properties'
inflection.humanize( 'message_properties', true ); // === 'message properties'

inflection.capitalize( str );

This function adds capitalization support to every String object.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

Example code

var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.capitalize( 'message_properties' ); // === 'Message_properties'
inflection.capitalize( 'message properties', true ); // === 'Message properties'

inflection.dasherize( str );

This function replaces underscores with dashes in the string.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

Example code

var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.dasherize( 'message_properties' ); // === 'message-properties'
inflection.dasherize( 'Message Properties' ); // === 'Message-Properties'

inflection.titleize( str );

This function adds titleize support to every String object.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

Example code

var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.titleize( 'message_properties' ); // === 'Message Properties'
inflection.titleize( 'message properties to keep' ); // === 'Message Properties to Keep'

inflection.demodulize( str );

This function adds demodulize support to every String object.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

Example code

var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.demodulize( 'Message::Bus::Properties' ); // === 'Properties'

inflection.tableize( str );

This function adds tableize support to every String object.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

Example code

var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.tableize( 'MessageBusProperty' ); // === 'message_bus_properties'

inflection.classify( str );

This function adds classification support to every String object.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

Example code

var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.classify( 'message_bus_properties' ); // === 'MessageBusProperty'

inflection.foreign_key( str, drop_id_ubar );

This function adds foreign key support to every String object.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

low_first_letter

type: Boolean
desc: Default is to seperate id with an underbar at the end of the class name, you can pass true to skip it.(optional)

Example code

var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.foreign_key( 'MessageBusProperty' ); // === 'message_bus_property_id'
inflection.foreign_key( 'MessageBusProperty', true ); // === 'message_bus_propertyid'

inflection.ordinalize( str );

This function adds ordinalize support to every String object.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

Example code

var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.ordinalize( 'the 1 pitch' ); // === 'the 1st pitch'

inflection.transform( str, arr );

This function performs multiple inflection methods on a string.

Arguments

str

type: String
desc: The subject string.

arr

type: Array
desc: An array of inflection methods.

Example code

var inflection = require( 'inflection' );

inflection.transform( 'all job', [ 'pluralize', 'capitalize', 'dasherize' ]); // === 'All-jobs'

Credit

• Ryan Schuft [e-mail]
• Lance Pollard [e-mail] (Browser support)
• Dane O'Connor [e-mail]
• brandondewitt
• luk3thomas
• Marcel Klehr
• Raymond Feng
• Kane Cohen [e-mail]
• Gianni Chiappetta [e-mail]
• Eric Brody
• overlookmotel
• Patrick Mowrer
• Greger Olsson
• Jason Crawford [e-mail]
• Ray Myers [e-mail]

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 dreamerslab <[e-mail]>

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