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toolphin

v1.0.2

Published

A collection of common utility functions for JavaScript/TypeScript projects

Readme

🛠️ toolphin

A collection of commonly used utility functions for JavaScript/TypeScript projects — packaged and ready to supercharge your development experience.

npm version License: MIT

✨ Features

  • 📅 Date formatting
  • 📧 Email masking and validation
  • 🧹 Object cleaning
  • 🆔 Random ID generation
  • 🔗 URL validation
  • 📭 Empty value detection
  • ⏳ Relative time calculation

📦 Installation

npm install toolphin
# or
yarn add toolphin

📚 Usage

import {
  formatDate,
  validateEmail,
  isEmpty,
  generateRandomId,
  isValidURL,
  cleanObject,
  maskEmail,
  timeAgo,
} from 'toolphin';

🧰 Utilities

formatDate(date: Date | string, format: string = "YYYY-MM-DD"): string

Formats a date string or object into a custom format.

formatDate("2023-05-20", "DD/MM/YYYY"); // "20/05/2023"

validateEmail(email: string): boolean

Checks if an email is valid.

validateEmail("[email protected]"); // true

isEmpty(value: any): boolean

Returns true if the value is null, empty string, empty object, or empty array.

isEmpty(""); // true
isEmpty({}); // true
isEmpty(["hi"]); // false

generateRandomId(length: number = 8): string

Generates a random alphanumeric ID.

generateRandomId(); // "x9a2bc1d"
gerateRandomId(10); // "32sdf323423"

isValidURL(url: string): boolean

Checks if a URL is valid.

isValidURL("https://example.com"); // true
isValidURL("hts://example.com"); // false

cleanObject(obj: object): object

Removes null and undefined values from an object.

cleanObject({ a: 1, b: undefined, c: null, d: 2 }); // { a: 1, d:2 }

maskEmail(email: string): string

Hides the email address by replacing the first 3 characters with asterisks.

maskEmail("[email protected]"); 
// ab******@example.com

timeAgo(date: Date | string): string

Returns a relative time string from a past date.

timeAgo("2025-04-05T09:00:00"); 
// e.g. "7 hours ago"

🧑‍💻 Author

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.