vladdress

Vladdress 🧛‍♂️

Introduction

This package aims to be a simple address parsing utility. It is based off of the project moneals/addresser but re-written in TypeScript and cleaned up a bit.

Why vladdress?

VLADdress is a combination of the company I work for (Vidaloop) and the function of the package itself (address parsing!)

Installation

If you're using NPM:

npm install vladdress

For yarn:

yarn add vladdress

Usage

The package is simple to use, simply import it and call parseAddress(...) with the address you'd like to parse.

import { parseAddress } from 'vladdress';

const result = parseAddress('123 Main Street, San Diego CA 92115');

Return Value

The following interface is returned from the function:

Property	Always Present?	Description
addressLine1	Yes	The full line 1 of the address specified.
formattedAddress	Yes	The formatted and normalized address as a human-readable output.
id	Yes	An ID generated from the name of the street that can be used for caching.
placeName	Yes	The name of the locality or city the address is in.
stateAbbreviation	Yes	The abbreviation of the state the address is in (e.g. CA)
stateName	Yes	The full name of the state the address is in.
streetName	Yes	The name of the street.
addressLine2	No	The full line 2 of the address specified (e.g. "Unit 1")
streetDirection	No	The direcion name of the street (if applicable) (e.g. N in 123 N Main St.).
streetNumber	No	The address's street number (if supplied).
streetSuffix	No	The suffix of the street name (e.g. St. in Main St.).
zipCode	No	For the US, this is this is the 5-digit ZIP code of the given address (e.g. 94021). In Canada, this is the canadian-formatted code (A1A-1A1)
zipCodePlusFour	No	In the US, this is the full, 9-digit zip code of the form (94021-2228)

Usage Notes

• US Addresses are the best supported (PRs welcome to remedy this!)
  • Canadian addresses may also be supported, but full support may be lacking.
• Addresses with no street number should still parse correctly
• Addresses with unit number in the front should still parse correctly
• Addresses with no delimiters ("," for example) should still parse correctly

Contributing

Any and all contributions are welcome! Simply make a PR and we will review it! (In the future, we may have more rules on contributions).

Testing

To test the package, run npm run test.

Testing is done via mocha and chai for assertions. Please run all tests before making a PR to ensure they all pass.