simple-slugify

Slugify a string, simply replace "Reserved characters", and "Unsafe characters" to "-".

Usage

const { slugify } = require('simple-slugify')

slugify('I ♥') // i-♥
slugify('大好き ♥', '_') // 大好き_♥

<!-- browser side -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/simple-slugify/dist/simple-slugify.min.js"></script>
<script>
  console.log(simpleSlugify.slugify('I ♥')) // i-♥
</script>

Api

const {
  defaultOptions,
  slugify,
  Slugify
} = require('simple-slugify')

defaultOptions

console.log(defaultOptions)
// {
//   lowercase: true,
//   normalize: 'NFKC',
//   replacement: '-',
//   reserved: true,
//   unsafe: true,
//   trim: true,
//   spaceLess: true,
//   space: true
// }

See details at ./src/index.js const defaultOptions

slugify

slugify(source: string, [replacement: string | options: object]): string

slugify(' A?#  b ') // a---b
slugify(' A?#  b ', '_') // a___b
slugify(' A?#  b ', {
  lowercase: false,
  replacement: '_',
  trim: false,
  spaceLess: false,
  space: '-'
}) // -A__--b-

Slugify

const s = new Slugify

// memorize slug, make sure the returning slug is unique
s.slug(source: string, [replacement: string | options: object], [separator: string]): string

// clear memory
s.reset(): void

const { Slugify } = require('simple-slugify')
const s = new Slugify
s.slug('大好き ♥') // 大好き-♥
s.slug('大好き ♥') // 大好き-♥.1

s.reset()
s.slug('大好き ♥') // 大好き-♥
s.slug('大好き ♥', { space: false }, '_') // 大好き ♥
s.slug('大好き ♥', { space: false }, '_') // 大好き ♥_1
s.slug('大好き ♥_1', { space: false }, '_') // 大好き ♥_1_1

<!-- browser side -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/simple-slugify/dist/simple-slugify.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var s = new simpleSlugify.Slugify()
  console.log(s.slug('I ♥')) // i-♥
  console.log(s.slug('I ♥')) // i-♥.1
</script>

Why

This lib focus on world wide human readable url, doesn't translate things to English. The non-english native people actually don't know too much English as programmers thought. So this lib converts characters only if necessary, only cover reserved, unsafe characters.

If you are looking for lib translating characters, please consider https://github.com/simov/slugify.