unbox-primitive
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Unbox a boxed JS primitive value. This module works cross-realm/iframe, does not depend on instanceof or mutable properties, and works despite ES6 Symbol.toStringTag.
var unboxPrimitive = require('unbox-primitive');
var assert = require('assert');
assert.equal(unboxPrimitive(new Boolean(false)), false);
assert.equal(unboxPrimitive(new String('f')), 'f');
assert.equal(unboxPrimitive(new Number(42)), 42);
const s = Symbol();
assert.equal(unboxPrimitive(Object(s)), s);
assert.equal(unboxPrimitive(new BigInt(42)), 42n);
// any primitive, or non-boxed-primitive object, will throw
Simply clone the repo, npm install, and run npm test
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Unbox a boxed JS primitive value.
The npm package unbox-primitive receives a total of 52,667,681 weekly downloads. As such, unbox-primitive popularity was classified as popular.
We found that unbox-primitive 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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