uni-phone

A glossary of intuitive, universally unambiguous phone domain literals.

purpose

declare a universally unambiguous serialization format for phones

• UniPhoneNumber = E.164
• UniPhone = { number: UniPhoneNumber }

usecases

• clarify the format a string should be in (const phoneNumber: UniPhoneNumber = '+13231110101')
• cast date to universal format (const phoneNumber: UniPhoneNumber = toUniPhoneNumber('(323) 111-0101'))
• narrow type of strings with runtime validation (if (!isUniPhoneNumber(input)) throw new Error('wrong format'))

install

npm install uni-phone

use

Phone

declare that a phone or phone.number must be in the universal format

const phone: UniPhone;
const phoneNumber: UniPhoneNumber;

assure that a phone number is in the universal phormat

const phone: UniPhone = { number: isUniPhoneNumber.assure('+13231110101') }

cast a phone number into the universal format

const phone: UniPhone = { number: asUniPhoneNumber('(323) 111-0101') }