@maxigarcia/js-utils

A small, dependency-free JavaScript/TypeScript utility library for everyday frontend work: class names, debouncing, deep comparison, text encoding, URL handling, and object helpers. Published as an ES module with TypeScript types.

What it is

@maxigarcia/js-utils bundles helpers you often copy between projects—things like joining conditional CSS classes, debouncing handlers, or reading query strings from the current page. Each function lives in its own module, is tree-shakeable via the package entry point, and ships with Vitest coverage.

The package targets browser and Node environments where the relevant APIs exist (window, URL, TextEncoder, btoa/atob, etc.). URL helpers default to window.location.href when no URL is passed.

Install

npm install @maxigarcia/js-utils

Quick start

import {
  addParamsToUrl,
  cn,
  debounce,
  decodeText,
  deepEqual,
  encodeText,
  getParamFromUrl,
  tryParseJson,
} from '@maxigarcia/js-utils';

const className = cn('btn', isActive && 'btn-active', null, 'w-full');
const onResize = debounce(() => console.log('resized'), 300);
const same = deepEqual({ a: [1] }, { a: [1] });

const token = encodeText('hello'); // Base64 (UTF-8 safe)
const page = getParamFromUrl('page');
const nextUrl = addParamsToUrl({ page: '2' });

const data = tryParseJson(`{ name: "Ada", tags: ["js"], }`); // lenient parse

API

Classes — cn

Joins truthy class fragments into one string. Falsy values (false, null, undefined, 0, '') are dropped; booleans used as flags are ignored.

cn('card', isOpen && 'card--open', disabled && 'card--disabled');
// → "card card--open"

Timing — debounce

Returns a debounced wrapper that delays calling fn until delay ms have passed without another invocation.

const save = debounce((value: string) => persist(value), 500);

Equality — deepEqual

Recursively compares two values. Arrays are compared by length and element; plain objects by own keys and values. Primitives use ===.

deepEqual({ x: [1, { y: 2 }] }, { x: [1, { y: 2 }] }); // true

Text — encodeText / decodeText

Encodes and decodes strings with UTF-8 via TextEncoder / TextDecoder and Base64 (btoa / atob), so non-ASCII text round-trips correctly.

Strings

Function	Description
capitalize(value)	Uppercases the first character and lowercases the rest. Empty strings are returned unchanged.
unwrapString(value)	Strips one or more layers of surrounding single or double quotes.
removeTrailingCommas(value)	Removes trailing commas before } or ] in a string (useful before JSON parsing).

Objects

Function	Description
isRecord(value)	Type guard: plain object (not null, not an array).
getNestedValue(obj, path)	Reads a dot-separated path (e.g. "user.address.city").
toFlatObject(obj, parentKey?)	Flattens nested objects into dot-notation keys.
tryParseJson(value)	Parses JSON after normalizing unquoted keys, unwrapping quoted strings, and removing trailing commas. Returns undefined on failure.

URLs

All URL helpers accept an optional url string; if omitted, they use window.location.href.

Function	Description
getParamsFromUrl(url?)	Returns a URLSearchParams instance for the URL’s query string.
getParamFromUrl(key, url?)	Gets one decoded query param, or null if missing.
addParamsToUrl(params, url?)	Merges Record<string, string> into the query string; returns the full URL string.
pushParamsToUrl(url)	Calls history.pushState with the given URL (updates the address bar).
removeParamFromUrl(key, url?)	Deletes one query param; returns the updated URL string.
isValidHttpUrl(url)	true if the string is a valid http: or https: URL.
getUrlDomain(url)	Returns the hostname, or null if the URL is invalid.

Example: update the current page’s query without a full navigation:

import { addParamsToUrl, pushParamsToUrl } from '@maxigarcia/js-utils';

const url = addParamsToUrl({ tab: 'settings', page: '1' });
pushParamsToUrl(url);

Development

npm install
npm run lint
npm test
npm run build

Build output goes to dist/ and is what gets published (exports point at ./dist/index.js and ./dist/index.d.ts).

License

ISC — see package.json.