recursive-trim

Recursively trims whitespace from strings inside objects, arrays, or deeply nested structures.
Supports TypeScript and works with JSON-like data.

Great for sanitizing deeply nested input data before saving or sending to an API.

✨ Features

• Recursively cleans deeply nested objects/arrays
• Works with objects, arrays, and nested data
• Leaves non-string values untouched
• Safe for null and undefined
• Zero dependencies
• ESM + TypeScript support

🚀 Installation

npm install recursive-trim

or

yarn add recursive-trim

📦 Usage

import recursiveTrim from "recursive-trim";

const data = {
  name: "  John Doe  ",
  address: {
    city: "  New York ",
    streets: ["  Main Street  ", "  5th Avenue "],
  },
  tags: ["  apple ", " banana  "],
};

const cleaned = recursiveTrim(data);

console.log(cleaned);
/*
{
  name: "John Doe",
  address: {
    city: "New York",
    streets: ["Main Street", "5th Avenue"]
  },
  tags: ["apple", "banana"]
}
*/

💡 Use Cases

• 🧼 Cleaning user input before saving to a database
• 📤 Sanitizing API payloads
• 🗄 Preparing data before comparing or storing

📄 License

MIT © Aravind Prabash