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A maximally minimal string formatting library. Use it to make your code more
readable compared to plain old string concatenation using +
. The code is
shorter than the MIT license text so it doesn't hog you down and you can use
it everywhere. Works in node and browsers.
var fmt = require("simple-fmt");
console.log(fmt("hello {0} of age {1}", name, age));
instead of
console.log("hello " + name + " of age " + age);
because string formatting with +
makes your eyes bleed and fingers hurt.
There's also fmt.obj(string, obj)
and fmt.repeat(string, n)
:
var o = {name: "xyz", age: 42};
fmt.obj("hello {name} of age {age}", obj);
fmt.repeat("*", 3); // "***"
That's it.
Install using npm
npm install simple-fmt
var fmt = require("simple-fmt");
Clone the repo and include it in a script tag
git clone https://github.com/olov/simple-fmt.git
<script src="simple-fmt/simple-fmt.js"></script>
FAQs
maximally minimal string formatting library
The npm package simple-fmt receives a total of 167,581 weekly downloads. As such, simple-fmt popularity was classified as popular.
We found that simple-fmt 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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