validate-functions

The validate-functions package provides a set of utility functions for validating common identification numbers and formats.

Installation

To install the package, use npm:

npm install validate-functions

More usage details are available here.

Features

This package includes various categorised validators which can be helppful for various developments.

Identification and Financial Numbers:

1. Credit Card Number: Validate using the Luhn algorithm.
2. Passport Number: Support formats for multiple countries.
3. Aadhaar: Validites Indian Identity numbers using specific patterns.
4. TIN/EIN: Validate Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) or Employer Identification Number (EIN).

Contact Information:

5. Postal/ZIP Code: Validate based on country-specific formats. It supports top 25 countries based on ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes namely: US, CN, IN, ID, PK, BR, NG, BD, RU, MX, JP, ET, PH, EG, VN, CD, TR, IR, DE, TH, GB, FR, IT, TZ, ZA.

Personal Information:

6. Email: Validate email addresses which conform to standard formats.

Internet/Network:

7. IP Address: Validate IPv4 and IPv6 formats.
8. URL: Validate structure and it supports URLs with and without protocols, and it handles query parameters and fragments.
9. MAC Address: Validate for networking hardware.

Document Validation:

10. PAN (Permanent Account Number): For Indian tax records.
11. Social Security Number (SSN): Validates U.S. Social Security Numbers based on predefined rules.
12. Social Insurance Number (SIN): For Canada or equivalent in other countries.

Formats and Patterns:

13. File Extensions: Validate file names/extensions (e.g., .jpg, .pdf).

Additional Utility:

14. Hex Color Codes: Validate #RRGGBB or #RGB color formats.
15. EAN/UPC: Validate international product codes.
16. Base64: Validate for Base64 encoded string.