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string.prototype.repeat
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A robust & optimized `String.prototype.repeat` polyfill, based on the ECMAScript 6 specification.
String.prototype.repeat
polyfill A robust & optimized polyfill for the String.prototype.repeat
method in ECMAScript 6.
This package implements the es-shim API interface. It works in an ES3-supported environment and complies with the spec.
Other polyfills for String.prototype.repeat
are available:
Via npm:
npm install string.prototype.repeat
Then, in Node.js:
var repeat = require('string.prototype.repeat');
In a browser:
<script src="https://bundle.run/string.prototype.repeat"></script>
NOTE: It's recommended that you install this module using a package manager such as
npm
, because loading multiple polyfills from a CDN (such asbundle.run
) will lead to duplicated code.
Mathias Bynens |
This polyfill is available under the MIT license.
FAQs
A robust & optimized `String.prototype.repeat` polyfill, based on the ECMAScript 6 specification.
We found that string.prototype.repeat demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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