initials

extracts initials from and adds initials to names

Installation

Install using npm for node.js:

npm install --save initials

Usage

initials('John Doe')
// 'JD'

initials(['John Doe', 'Robert Roe'])
// ['JD', 'RR']

// alias for initials('John Doe')
initials.find('John Doe')

// parse name(s)
initials.parse('John Doe')
// {name: 'John Doe', initials: 'JD'}

// add initials to name(s)
initials.addTo('John Doe')
// 'John Doe (JD)'

// pass existing initials for names
initials(['John Doe', 'Jane Dane'], {
  existing: { 'John Doe': 'JD' }
})
// ['JD', 'JDa']

Notes

Preffered initials can be passed in (JD), e.g.

console.log( initials('John Doe (JoDo)') );
// 'JoDo'

If a name contains an email, it gets ignored when calculating initials

console.log( initials('John Doe joe@example.com') );
// 'JD'

If a name is an email, the domain part gets ignored

console.log( initials('joe@example.com') );
// 'jo'

When passing an Array of names, duplicates of initials are avoided

console.log( initials(['John Doe', 'Jane Dane']) );
// ['JDo', 'JDa']

Test

npm test

LICENSE

MIT