🇿🇦 South Africa National ID Validation

Checks the National ID input:

• is valid (regex)
  • correct format
  • correct citizenship
  • correct number of digits
  • not blank
• passes checksum
• has a correct date
• is above a minimum age (optional)

Usage

Grab from NPM / Yarn

npm i south-africa-national-id-validation

yarn add south-africa-national-id-validation

import verifyNationalIdNumber from 'south-africa-national-id-validation'

verifyNationalIdNumber({
    number //(string) the number to check
    minAge //(number) minimum allowed age
    errorMessages: {
        format //(string) error to display when format check fails
        date //(string) error to display when date check fails
        age //(string) error to display when age check fails
        checksum //(string) error to display when checksum check fails
    }
})

Check out the tests for specific use case examples

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Based off the westercape docs

Inspired by valid-south-african-id

TODO

• Consider using date-fns/toDate helper for date validation once 2.0 is released