largs-utils

A collection of personal utility functions that are reusable across various projects.

Installation

npm install largs-utils

Functions

camelToSentenceCase

Converts a camelCase or PascalCase string into a readable sentence with spaces.

Usage:

import { camelToSentenceCase } from "largs-utils";

console.log(camelToSentenceCase("helloWorld")); // "Hello World"
console.log(camelToSentenceCase("ThisIsATest")); // "This Is A Test"
console.log(camelToSentenceCase("JSONParser")); // "JSON Parser"
console.log(camelToSentenceCase("APITestCase")); // "API Test Case"

coercedGet

Safely retrieves a value from an object with default handling.

Usage:

import { coercedGet } from "largs-utils";

const obj = { a: { b: { c: 42 } } };
const value = coercedGet(obj, "a.b.c", 0);
console.log(value); // 42

const missingValue = coercedGet(obj, "a.b.x", 0);
console.log(missingValue); // 0

extractLatLngFromGoogleMapsUrl

Extracts the longitude and latitude to a valid google maps url link

Usage:

import { extractLatLngFromGoogleMapsUrl } from "largs-utils";

extractLatLngFromGoogleMapsUrl(
  "https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7128,-74.0060,15z"
); // { latitude: 40.7128, longitude: -74.006 }

extractLatLngFromGoogleMapsUrl("https://googlemaps.com"); // null

generatePrefixedId

Generates UUID with a prefix

Usage:

import { generatePrefixedId } from "largs-utils";

generatePrefixedId("usr"); // usr_<uuid>
generatePrefixedId("kyl"); // kyl_<uuid>

isValidEmail

Validates if a given email address is in a proper format.

Usage:

import { isValidEmail } from "largs-utils";

const email1 = "test@example.com";
const email2 = "invalid-email";

console.log(isValidEmail(email1)); // true
console.log(isValidEmail(email2)); // false

isValidHttpUrl

Validates if a given string is a valid URL

Usage:

import { isValidHttpUrl } from "largs-utils";

isValidHttpUrl("https://google.com"); // true
isValidHttpUrl("http://example.com"); // true
isValidHttpUrl("ftp://fileserver.com"); // false
isValidHttpUrl("javascript:alert(1)"); // false
isValidHttpUrl("random-string"); // false

isValidGoogleMapsUrl

Detect if a URL is a valid Google Maps link

Usage:

import { isValidGoogleMapsUrl } from "largs-utils";

isValidGoogleMapsUrl(
  "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Metrotent+Convention+Center/@14.58631,121.06406,17z"
); // true
isValidGoogleMapsUrl("https://maps.google.com/maps?q=place"); // true
isValidGoogleMapsUrl("https://www.example.com/maps/place"); // false
isValidGoogleMapsUrl("not a url"); // false

shuffleArray

Randomly shuffles the elements of an array.

Usage:

import { shuffleArray } from "largs-utils";

const array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
const shuffled = shuffleArray(array);
console.log(shuffled); // e.g., [3, 1, 4, 5, 2]

toKebabCase

Converts Sentence Case strings to kebab-case

Usage:

import { toKebabCase } from "largs-utils";

console.log(toKebabCase("React Testing Library")); // react-testing-library
console.log(toKebabCase("Aliessa Dedase")); // aliessa-dedase

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