slug

Slugifies strings, even when they contain Unicode.

Make strings URL-safe.

Respects RFC 3986
No dependencies
Works in the browser or in Node.js

npm install slug

If you are using TypeScript you can install the accompanying types

npm install --save-dev @types/slug

Differences between `slug` and `slugify` packages

Here are some key differences between this package and slugify.

Defaults: slug has the lower option enabled by default, lowercasing all slugs ('On SALE' becomes 'on-sale').
slugify has the lower option disabled by default ('On SALE' becomes 'On-SALE').
Symbols: slug removes unrecognized symbols ('$100' becomes '100', '<5' becomes '5', etc.).
slugify maps them to words ('$100' becomes 'dollar100', '<5' becomes 'less5', etc.).
Empty Output: slug will return a short, predictable hash (' ' becomes 'icag' and '🎉' becomes '8joiq').
slugify will return an empty string (' ' and '🎉' become '').
Stability: slug is planning a new release in June 2022 that will drop support for CommonJS and only support ESM modules.
slugify will continue to support CommonJS and is likely to remain stable for the foreseeable future.

Example

import slug from 'slug'
var print = console.log.bind(console, '>')

print(slug('i love unicode'))
// > i-love-unicode

print(slug('i love unicode', '_')) // If you prefer something else than `-` as separator
// > i_love_unicode

slug.charmap['♥'] = 'freaking love' // change default charmap or use option {charmap:{…}} as 2. argument
print(slug('I ♥ UNICODE'))
// > i-freaking-love-unicode

// To reset modifications to slug.charmap, use slug.reset():
slug.reset()
print(slug('I ♥ UNICODE'))
// > i_unicode

print(slug('Telephone-Number')) // lower case by default
// > telephone-number

print(slug('Telephone-Number', {lower: false})) // If you want to preserve case
// > Telephone-Number

// We try to provide sensible defaults.
// So Cyrillic text will be transliterated as if it were Russian:
print(slug('маленький подъезд'))
// > malenkij-poduezd

// But maybe you know it's Bulgarian:
print(slug('маленький подъезд', { locale: 'bg' }))
// > malenykiy-podaezd

// To set the default locale:
slug.setLocale('bg')
print(slug('маленький подъезд'))
// > malenykiy-podaezd

print(slug('unicode is ☢'))
// > unicode-is

slug.extend({'☢': 'radioactive'})
print(slug('unicode ♥ is ☢'))
// > unicode-is-radioactive

// slug.extend() modifies the default charmap for the entire process.
// If you need to reset charmap, multicharmap, and the default locale, use slug.reset():

slug.reset()
print(slug('unicode ♥ is ☢'))
// > unicode-is

// Custom removal of characters from resulting slug. Let's say that we want to
// remove all numbers for some reason.
print(slug('one 1 two 2 three 3'))
// > one-1-two-2-three-3
print(slug('one 1 two 2 three 3', { remove: /[0-9]/g }))
// > one-two-three

options

// options is either object or replacement (sets options.replacement)
slug('string', [{options} || 'replacement']);

slug.defaults.mode ='pretty';
slug.defaults.modes['rfc3986'] = {
    replacement: '-',      // replace spaces with replacement
    remove: null,          // (optional) regex to remove characters
    lower: true,           // result in lower case
    charmap: slug.charmap, // replace special characters
    multicharmap: slug.multicharmap // replace multiple code unit characters
    trim: true             // trim leading and trailing replacement chars
};
slug.defaults.modes['pretty'] = {
    replacement: '-',
    remove: null,
    lower: false,
    charmap: slug.charmap,
    multicharmap: slug.multicharmap
    trim: true              
};

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11.0.0-beta.1 ... beta (2 months ago)
10.0.0 ... latest (2 months ago)

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Differences between slug and slugify packages

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Differences between `slug` and `slugify` packages