What is toidentifier?
The 'toidentifier' npm package is a simple utility that converts a string into a valid JavaScript identifier. This is useful when you need to dynamically generate variable names, function names, or other identifiers from strings that may contain invalid characters or spaces.
What are toidentifier's main functionalities?
String to Identifier Conversion
Converts a given string into a camel-cased string that is safe to use as a JavaScript identifier.
var toIdentifier = require('toidentifier');
var identifier = toIdentifier('Some example!');
console.log(identifier); // Outputs: SomeExample
Other packages similar to toidentifier
camelcase
The 'camelcase' package converts strings to camel case. It is more feature-rich than 'toidentifier', offering options to deal with acronyms, pascal case, and more complex string transformations.
slugify
While 'slugify' is designed to create URL slugs from strings, it also removes or replaces special characters and can be used to generate safe identifiers. It offers more options for handling special characters and case conversion compared to 'toidentifier'.
decamelize
The 'decamelize' package is somewhat the inverse of 'toidentifier', converting camel-cased strings back into lower case with a separator. It's useful for tasks that require the opposite operation of what 'toidentifier' performs.
toidentifier

Convert a string of words to a JavaScript identifier
Install
This is a Node.js module available through the
npm registry. Installation is done using the
npm install
command:
$ npm install toidentifier
Example
var toIdentifier = require('toidentifier')
console.log(toIdentifier('Bad Request'))
API
This CommonJS module exports a single default function: toIdentifier
.
toIdentifier(string)
Given a string as the argument, it will be transformed according to
the following rules and the new string will be returned:
- Split into words separated by space characters (
0x20
).
- Upper case the first character of each word.
- Join the words together with no separator.
- Remove all non-word (
[0-9a-z_]
) characters.
License
MIT