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validate.io-number
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Validates if a value is a number.
$ npm install validate.io-number
For use in the browser, use browserify.
var isNumber = require( 'validate.io-number' );
Validates if a value
is a number
.
var value = Math.PI;
var bool = isNumber( value );
// returns true
console.log( isNumber( 5 ) );
// returns true
console.log( isNumber( new Number( 5 ) ) );
// returns true
console.log( isNumber( NaN ) );
// returns false
To run the example code from the top-level application directory,
$ node ./examples/index.js
Unit tests use the Mocha test framework with Chai assertions. To run the tests, execute the following command in the top-level application directory:
$ make test
All new feature development should have corresponding unit tests to validate correct functionality.
This repository uses Istanbul as its code coverage tool. To generate a test coverage report, execute the following command in the top-level application directory:
$ make test-cov
Istanbul creates a ./reports/coverage
directory. To access an HTML version of the report,
$ make view-cov
Copyright © 2014. Athan Reines.
FAQs
Validates if a value is a number.
The npm package validate.io-number receives a total of 875,858 weekly downloads. As such, validate.io-number popularity was classified as popular.
We found that validate.io-number 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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