Question

For a longer time I have pondered why there aren’t more robust Javascript string utility libraries that have developer friendly APIs. I have been spoiled by the Rails frameworks with sugary utility methods like:

camelcase, camelize, classify, constantize, dasherize, deconstantize, demodulize, humanize, isBlank, parameterize, pluralize, tableize, titlecase, titleize, underscore

I note that some of these you can easily find one-off implementations of but most implementations are painful to use with other JS libraries since they usually use a nasty form of prototypal inheritance that drops any additions libraries like Jquery or Prototype make to the prototype.

Have I been living in a closet for the last decade, who has the magic here? I am not really looking for examples of how to implement, but for a library that works with jQuery and other toys I already have in the box.

Answer 1

Have a look at UNDERSCORE STRING

Underscore.string is JavaScript library for comfortable manipulation
with strings, extension for Underscore.js inspired by Prototype.js,
Right.js, Underscore and beautiful Ruby language.

Underscore.string provides you several useful functions: capitalize,
clean, includes, count, escapeHTML, unescapeHTML, insert, splice,
startsWith, endsWith, titleize, trim, truncate and so on.