JS Humanize (Give data a human touch)

[mvrekic]

If you are familiar with Django you are familiar with a nice set of template tags called "humanize". In essence it turns data such as "13 April 2012" into "2 days ago" or "1000000000" into "1.0 billion". JS Humanizer is a jQuery counterpart to the Django humanize template tags we wrote and thought that others might find it useful too.

[callumjones]

Is it possible to have these in a stand alone library/namespace without the need for bringing the whole of jQuery with it? Not everyone uses jQuery in their JS application and it certainly would aid those who perform server-side JS.

[chetan51]

I've removed the jQuery dependency and submitted a pull request (https://github.com/milanvrekic/JS-humanize/pull/1).

[Groxx]

IMO it's especially heinous because I didn't see a single piece of jQuery use in the code (I may have missed it, though). All they seem to be requiring jQuery for is to add to the $ namespace.

That pedantry aside, it seems like a decent enough chunk of code, and it's very easy to read. More libraries should be this clean.

[TamDenholm]

This is perhaps an inelegant solution but i've found it useful sometimes, you can get standalone functions of most of these by using a JS port of PHP functions called phpjs (phpjs.org), while i understand PHP is as cool as toe fungus on HN right now, its a solution.

EDIT: Actually having now looked at the code, it seems a lot of it is specifically using the phpjs library.

[mvrekic]

jQuery bit was originally intended to make it compatible with require.js loading; chetan51, Groxx - thanks for pointing it out. We removed that bit but we missed the dependancy, removed now thanks to chetan51

[dominicrodger]

Nice work! Might want to update the README - it's no longer a jQuery plugin.

[callumjones]

Sweet! Might be needing this library very soon!

[ctz]

  filesizeformat (1234567890 = 1.15 Gb)

This should be either 9.20 Gb or 1.15 GB.

[sirn]

Nice idea, but seems to lack of any input escaping.

    => Humanize.truncatechars("<script>alert('yo');<\/script>", 30)
       "<script>alert('yo');</script>"

    => Humanize.linebreaks("<script>alert('yo');<\/script>")
       "<p><script>alert('yo');</script></p>"

Bug filed.

[mvrekic]

Thanks. I am on it.

[whalesalad]

This is great! I love how it aligns with the Django templating system as well =) Although I do agree that this might be better off a something that is framework independent. A while ago I posted an example on Forrst of how you might write a simple and pure-js shorten function: https://forrst.com/posts/JavaScript_Shorten_Function-1up

[chrisbroadfoot]

Two things:

1) Gb should be GiB

2) it would be lovely to see some internationalisation support.

[chris_wot]

This might need some internationalization support...

[_pferreir_]

I totally agree. i.e. plural should be handled by i18n libraries. Same thing for the thousands separator, different locales use different separators/styles.

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[mahmud]

All of them are built into Play Framework, fwiw.