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passwordmeter
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Password security checker function based on http://www.passwordmeter.com/
Password security checker function based on http://www.passwordmeter.com/
Unobtrusive and unit-tested.
This package is distributed via npm:
npm install passwordmeter
or Bower:
bower install passwordmeter
var passwordMeter = require('passwordmeter');
//Function returns result from 0 to 100 and -1 for empty password.
//Second param is minimum password length. 8 by default
var score = passwordMeter.checkPass('pA$$w0rD', 8);
<script src="bower_components/passwordmeter/dist/index.umd.min.js"></script>
<script>
var score = passwordMeter.checkPass('pA$$w0rD', 8);
</script>
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Password security checker function based on http://www.passwordmeter.com/
The npm package passwordmeter receives a total of 412 weekly downloads. As such, passwordmeter popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that passwordmeter 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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