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magic-validator
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A simple validation package for common data types in Node.js.
Install the package via npm:
npm install magic-validator
const { validateEmail, validateURL, validatePhoneNumber, validateUsername, validatePassword, validateName, validateIPAddress, validateMACAddress, validateJWTToken } = require('magic-validator');
// Validate an email address
const email = 'test@example.com';
console.log('Email validation:', validateEmail(email)); // true
// Validate a URL
const url = 'https://example.com';
console.log('URL validation:', validateURL(url)); // true
// Validate a phone number (validate 10 numbers)
const phoneNumber = '1234567890';
console.log('Phone number validation:', validatePhoneNumber(phoneNumber)); // true
// Validate a username
const username = 'user123';
console.log('Username validation:', validateUsername(username)); // true
// Validate a password
const password = 'Passw0rd!';
console.log('Password validation:', validatePassword(password)); // true
// Validate a name
const name = 'John Doe';
console.log('Name validation:', validateName(name)); // true
// Validate an IP address
const ipAddress = '192.168.0.1';
console.log('IP address validation:', validateIPAddress(ipAddress)); // true
// Validate a MAC address
const macAddress = '00:1A:2B:3C:4D:5E';
console.log('MAC address validation:', validateMACAddress(macAddress)); // true
// Validate a JWT token
const jwtToken = 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiaWF0IjoxNTE2MjM5MDIyfQ.SflKxwRJSMeKKF2QT4fwpMeJf36POk6yJV_adQssw5c';
console.log('JWT token validation:', validateJWTToken(jwtToken)); // true
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A simple validation package for common data types.
The npm package magic-validator receives a total of 3 weekly downloads. As such, magic-validator popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that magic-validator 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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