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nl2br - A NodeJS module for converting newlines to line breaks
Based on this answer in StackOverflow
##Install
$ npm install nl2br
var nl2br = require('nl2br');
// XHTML Way
nl2br('Base\nballs'); // returns 'Base<br/>balls'
// Non-XHTML Way
nl2br('Base\nballs', false); // returns 'Base<br>balls'
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A NodeJS module for converting newlines to line breaks
The npm package nl2br receives a total of 4,789 weekly downloads. As such, nl2br popularity was classified as popular.
We found that nl2br 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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