arrel / meteor-missing-helpers

Various string and text manipulation utils and UI helpers for Meteor

Missing UI template helpers for Meteor

This project was inspired by awesome template tags and filters shipped with Django.

Installation:

meteor add msamoylov:missing-helpers

Template helpers:

1. {{stripTags yourStringWithHTML}}. This global template helper removes HTML tags from your string. It's possible to provide a second parameter with the list of allowed tags. For instance, {{stripTags yourStringWithHTML "<strong><p>"}}
2. {{hasVerifiedEmail userObject}}. Can be useful for prompting users to verify their email addresses. If the parameter is omitted, the helper uses ```{{currentUser}}`` variable.
3. {{currentYear}} returns a string with the current year. Can be useful for generating a footer with your copyright.
4. {{formatDateTime createdAt formatString}} returns a formatted date according to moment.js formatting rules. For instance, {{formatDateTime createdAt "MMM D"}} produces "Jan 13", and {{formatDateTime createdAt}} does "2015-01-13T23:44:50+02:00"
5. {{timeSince createdAt}} returns relative time since a given date. A wrapper for moment().fromNow()
6. {{truncateChars yourString length}} truncates a string after a certain number of characters.
7. {{linebreaksbr yourText}} converts all newlines in a piece of plain text to HTML line breaks (<br>). If you provide a second parameter as true, it will remove the existing newlines from text.

Low-level utilities:

1. MissingUtility.cleanTags(yourStringWithHTML) removes all HTML tags from a given string. The second parameter accepts a string with allowed tags. For instance, MissingUtility.cleanTags(yourStringWithHTML, '<strong><p>').
2. MissingUtility.hasVerifiedEmail(userObject) determines if a user has verified his email address.
3. MissingUtility.truncateChars(yourString, length) truncates a string after a certain number of characters.
4. MissingUtility.nl2br(yourText) converts all newlines in a piece of plain text to HTML line breaks (<br>). If you provide a second parameter as true, it will remove the existing newlines from text.