What is longest?
The 'longest' npm package is a simple utility that allows you to find the longest string in an array of strings. It is useful when you need to determine the maximum length of strings within a collection, which can be helpful for formatting console output, aligning text, or any other situation where string length matters.
What are longest's main functionalities?
Find the longest string in an array
This feature allows you to pass an array of strings to the 'longest' function, which returns the longest string in the array.
"const longest = require('longest');
const array = ['short', 'medium', 'longestString'];
const longestString = longest(array);
console.log(longestString); // 'longestString'"
Other packages similar to longest
string-length
The 'string-length' package is similar to 'longest' in that it deals with string lengths. However, 'string-length' calculates and returns the real length of a string, taking into account ansi escape codes and combining characters, rather than finding the longest string in a collection.
pad
The 'pad' package is related to 'longest' as it can be used in conjunction with finding the longest string to pad other strings to match the length of the longest string. It provides a way to pad a string on the left, right, or both sides to a certain length.
cli-table
While 'cli-table' is more complex, it is a package that can benefit from 'longest' functionality. 'cli-table' is used to create table outputs in the console, and knowing the longest string in each column can help to format the table properly. However, 'cli-table' has its own internal methods for managing column widths.
longest
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Get the longest item in an array.
Install
Install with npm:
$ npm install --save longest
Install
Install with bower
$ bower install longest --save
Usage
var longest = require('longest');
longest(['a', 'abcde', 'abc']);
longest(['a', 'abcde', 'abc']).length;
About
Contributing
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
Contributors
Building docs
(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)
To generate the readme, run the following command:
$ npm install -g verbose/verb
Running tests
Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:
$ npm install && npm test
Author
Jon Schlinkert
License
Copyright © 2017, Jon Schlinkert.
Released under the MIT License.
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