AmortizeJS
Loan calculation and amortization schedule utility with support for custom amortization methods, available for node and browser.
AmortizeJS;
Table of Contents
Features
- Periodic payment calculation
- Total interest calculation
- Total payment calculation
- Calculate a payment's interest amount, principal amount and remaining balance
- Amortization schedule creation with optional payment date support
- Easily customize and create new amortization methods
Supported amortization methods
- Mortgage-Style/Constant-Payment method
Installation
Using Bower:
$ bower install amortizejs
Using npm:
$ npm install amortizejs
Usage
In Browser: AmortizeJS
class is available on the window object.
In Node.js
var AmortizeJS = Calculator;
Quickstart
To calculate a mortgage amortization schedule including payment dates:
var mortgage = AmortizeJS; console; // 5100.06console; // 0.00292console; // 25653.34console; // 306003.34console; // Sat Dec 24 2022 00:00:00 GMT-0500 (EST)console; // [{"interest": 817.69, "principal": 4282.37, "remainingBalance": 276067.63, "date":"2017-12-24T05:00:00.000Z"} ...]
To retrieve list of available amortization methods:
AmortizeJS; // ['mortgage']
API Docs
AmortizeJS
Command | Params | Return | Description |
---|---|---|---|
calculate(config) |
calculatorConfig | AmortizationMethod | Calculates amortization details and schedule. |
availableMethods() |
none | string[] | Returns the amortization methods that are available. |
CalculatorConfig
An object conforming to the CalculatorConfig Interface is required when calling AmortizeJS.calculate(config)
, the following options are available:
Attribute | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
method | string | function | A string identifying the amortization method to use, or a custom amortization function. |
balance | number | The loan amount. |
loanTerm | number | Loan term in month. |
apr | number | The Anual Percentage Rate (ex: 3.5%) |
startDate | Date (Optional) | Optional start date, will cause monthly payments to have dates attached to them. |
AmortizationMethod
An object conforming to the AmortizationMethod Interface is returned when calling AmortizeJS.calculate(config)
, the following attributes are available on it:
Attribute | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
balance | number | The loan amount. |
periods | number | The total number of periods. |
periodicInterest | number | The interest payed per period, if the period is month then the APR will be divided by 12 (ex: APR = 3.5%, i = 0.035/12). |
periodicPayment | number | The total payment that needs to be made per period. |
schedule | Payment[] | Array of payments required to pay off the balance. |
totalPayment | number | The total amount of all payments over the term. |
totalInterest | number | The total amount of interest spend over the term. |
startDate | Date (Optional) | The start date of the loan. |
endDate | Date (Optional) | The pay off date (Will only be calculated if startDate was given). |
Payment
A payment for the loan, will include the following:
Attribute | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
interest | number | Portion of the payment that goes to interest. |
principal | number | Portion of the payment that goes to principal. |
remainingBalance | number | Remaining balance after this payment. |
date | Date | The date of the payment. |
Formatting of results in examples
Results are not truncated or formatted in any way, the results in the examples are truncated for clarity.
Contributing
It is easy to extend AmortizeJS with custom amortization methods, all you need to do is create a javascript class or function that can be initiated via the new
operator. This constructor will be supplied the following arguments in order:
Argument | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
balance | number | The loan amount. |
periodicInterest | number | The interest payed per period. |
periods | number | The total number of periods. |
startDate | Date (Optional) | The start date of the loan. |
The constructor should return an object that conforms to the AmortizationMethod interface.
Using a custom method
{ //Your custom amortization algorithm here return arguments;} var mortgage = Calculator; console; //{"0": 280350, "1": 0.00292, "2": 60, "3": "2017-12-24T05:00:00.000Z"}
Using a custom class
{ //Your custom amortization algorithm here return arguments; } var mortgage = Calculator; console; //{"0": 280350, "1": 0.00292, "2": 60, "3": "2017-12-24T05:00:00.000Z"}