input-format

Formatting user's text input on-the-fly

Installation

npm install input-format --save

Usage

Define parse() and format() functions. For example, for parsing a phone number.

import { templateParser, templateFormatter, parseDigit } from 'input-format'

// US phone number template
const TEMPLATE = '(xxx) xxx-xxxx'

// `parse` function parses input text characters one-by-one.
//
// `function parse(character, value) { return character }`
//
// Arguments:
//  * `character` is the currently parsed input text character.
//  * `value` is the parsed value so far.
//
// Returns:
//  * If it returns anything (not `undefined`) then it is appended to the `value`
//
// `parseDigit` is an exported helper `parse` function
// that returns `character` if it's a digit
// (a common case, e.g. phone numbers input).
//
// `templateParser` wrapper is a small helper
// which enhances `parse` function to limit `value` max length
// to the number of "x"-es in the template.
//
const parse = templateParser(TEMPLATE, parseDigit)

// `format` function formats parsed value.
//
// function format(value) { return { text: '(800) 555-3535', template: '(xxx) xxx-xxxx' } }
//
// Arguments:
//  * `value` is the parsed value to be formatted.
//
// Returns `{ text, template }`, where:
//  * `text` is the formatted text
//  * `template` is the template used to format the `text`
//    (can be a partial template or a full template)
//
// If the `value` couldn't be formatted then
// `format()` should just return `undefined`.
//
// `templateFormatter` helper creates a formatter based on a template.
//
const format = templateFormatter(TEMPLATE)

Then pass these parse() and format() functions to the library.

React Component:

import { ReactInput } from 'input-format'

<ReactInput
  value={this.state.phone}
  onChange={phone => this.setState({ phone })}
  parse={parse}
  format={format}/>

Low-level Input Component API:

import
{
  onChange,
  onCut,
  onPaste,
  onKeyDown
}
from 'input-format'

const input = document.querySelector('input')

 onChange(event, input, parse, format, onChangeHandler)
    onCut(event, input, parse, format, onChangeHandler)
  onPaste(event, input, parse, format, onChangeHandler)
onKeyDown(event, input, parse, format, onChangeHandler)

Core API:

import { parse, format } from 'input-format'

// Input character parser for `parse()`.
function _parse(character, value)
{
  if (value.length < 10)
  {
    if (character >= '0' && character <= '9')
    {
      return character
    }
  }
}

// Output text formatter for `format()`.
function _format(value)
{
  ...

  // Just as an example of a return value
  return {
    text: '(800) 555-3535',
    template: '(xxx) xxx-xxxx'
  }
}

// Testing.

let value
let text = '(800) 555-3535'
let caret = 4 // before the first zero

// `parse()`.

{ value, caret } = parse(text, caret, _parse)

value === '8005553535'
caret === 2

// `format()`.

{ text, caret } = format(value, caret, _format)

value === '(800) 555-3535'
caret === 4

Android

There have been some reports of non-stock Android keyboards not handling caret positioning properly. I don't have such an Android phone at my disposal to debug that issue.

Contributing

After cloning this repo, ensure dependencies are installed by running:

npm install

This module is written in ES6 and uses Babel for ES5 transpilation. Widely consumable JavaScript can be produced by running:

npm run build

Once npm run build has run, you may import or require() directly from node.

After developing, the full test suite can be evaluated by running:

npm test

When you're ready to test your new functionality on a real project, you can run

npm pack

It will build, test and then create a .tgz archive which you can then install in your project folder

npm install [module name with version].tar.gz

License