clean-accents

Introduction

A light weight tiny package for cleaning accents from string.

Motivation

Node.js projects can often become overloaded with dependencies, which can lead to performance issues. This package aims to remain as lightweight as possible to help mitigate such problems.

Installation

npm install clean-accents
# or
yarn add clean-accents

Features

function	argument	return type	description
cleanAccents.clean(str)	string	string	returns a given string without accents
cleanAccents.has(str)	string	boolean	returns true if it has accent or false if it doesn't

Usage

Cleaning accents

import { cleanAccents } from "clean-accents";
// or
const { cleanAccents } = require("clean-accents");


const str = `àáâãäåāăąèéêëēėęěìíîïīįòóôõöōőùúûüūůűýÿçćčďğģńñňřśšşťžźżÀÁÂÃÄÅĀĂĄÈÉÊËĒĖĘĚÌÍÎÏĪĮÒÓÔÕÖŌŐÙÚÛÜŪŮŰÝŸÇĆČĎĞĢŃÑŇŘŚŠŞŤŽŹŻ`

const stringWithNoaccent = cleanAccents.clean(str)

console.log(stringWithNoaccent)

// output
aaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeiiiiiiooooooouuuuuuuyycccdggnnnrssstzzzAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEIIIIIIOOOOOOOUUUUUUUYYCCCDGGNNNRSSSTZZZ

Checking if has accents

import { cleanAccents } from "clean-accents";
// or
const { cleanAccents } = require("clean-accents");


const str = `àáâãäåāăąèéêëēėęěìíîïīįòóôõöōőùúûüūůűýÿçćčďğģńñňřśšşťžźżÀÁÂÃÄÅĀĂĄÈÉÊËĒĖĘĚÌÍÎÏĪĮÒÓÔÕÖŌŐÙÚÛÜŪŮŰÝŸÇĆČĎĞĢŃÑŇŘŚŠŞŤŽŹŻ`
const strHasAccent = cleanAccents.has(str)
console.log(strHasAccent) // outputs true

const str2 = 'some random string'
const string2HasAccent = cleanAccents.has(str2)
console.log(string2HasAcent) // outputs false