human-text

human-text is a JavaScript library that transforms plain text into HTML. It is a port of the Ruby gem auto_html.

Installation

npm install human-text

Usage

import { autoHtml, SimpleFormat, Image, Link } from 'human-text';

const text = 'Check the logo: https://example.org/images/rails.png. Visit: http://rubyonrails.org';
const filters = [new SimpleFormat(), new Image(), new Link()];

const result = autoHtml(text, filters);

console.log(result);

This will output:

<p>Check the logo: <img src="https://example.org/images/rails.png" alt="">. Visit: <a href="http://rubyonrails.org">http://rubyonrails.org</a></p>

Filters

The following filters are available:

• SimpleFormat: Wraps the text in <p> tags and replaces newlines with <br> tags.
• Image: Replaces image URLs with <img> tags.
• Link: Replaces URLs with <a> tags.
• HtmlEscape: Escapes HTML characters.
• Markdown: Converts Markdown to HTML.
• Emoji: Converts emoji codes to emojis.

Running tests

npm test