General Utilities

Get all the utility functions at one place, I've got your back, you can just jump on to write code.

Installation

You can install the General Utilities package from npm using the following command:

npm install general-utilities

Summary

There are many utility functions embedded across features into this one single package viz.

1. Cryptography
  - encrypt, decrypt, hash, hashCompare
2. Database - Mongo
  - execute bulk query { update, insert }
3. Date-Time
  - many datetime utility functions to cater your daily needs
4. URL
  - base64 encoding, decoding
5. String
  - split-text-by-line-length, split-words-by-line-length, etc.
6. Profiler
  - to understand cpu usage against your code

Usage Guidelines

Cryptography

Default ENV Configurations

## CRYPTOGRAPHY
DATA_ENCRYPTION_ALGORITHM = some-algorithm-like:aes-256-cbc
DATA_ENCRYPTION_KEY       = some-encryption-key-like:h3ll0
DATA_ENCRYPTION_IV_32     = some-iv-32-chars:3q9423co5upaqwer3q9423co5upaqwer
# HASHING
HASH_PEPPER      = some-pepper-like:3q9423co5up
HASH_SALT_ROUNDS = 10
HASH_ENTROPY     = 5

Usage Example

const { crypto }  = require('general-utilities');

# encryption-decryption
const encText = crypto.encrypt('some-text');
const decText = crypto.decrypt(encText);
# note that for fields representing user-id, you may want to use a static iv so that your login process remains easy
# pass second argument as true to use static-iv
const encText = crypto.encrypt('mobile/email/userid', true);

# hashing
const pwdHash = crypto.hash('check-me');
const isMatching = crypto.hashCompare('check-me', pwdHash); // returns boolean

Database - { Mongo }

Default ENV Configurations

# n-records to be written in bulk, code will accumulate upto this number and then execute the query
BULKMONGO_POOLSIZE = 1000

Usage Example

const { database } = require('general-utilities');

# MyModel represents ORM of a mongo model
# data[] is the data to be inserted/udpated
# action can be 'updateOne' or 'insertOne'
database.executeBulkHomogeneousMongoQuery(MyModel, data, action); // returns promise

###
# for updateOne, use below syntax
#   assume an array 'items' containing objects like { id: 'MYID-123', count: 0 }
#   objective is to update the count belonging to the id by 1
const data = items.map(p => ({ filter: { _id: p.id }, update: { $inc: { count: 1 } }}))
# above code will parse data in the expected format and can be then passed to 'executeBulkHomogeneousMongoQuery'
###

###
# for insertOne, use below syntax, 3rd argument can be left blank as default action is 'insertOne'
#   insertOne is rather simpler than updateOne because you can simply pass the json as is
#   say, we want to insert below data
const data = [{ _id: 'unique-id-1', count: 0 }, { _id: 'unique-id-2', count: 9 }]
executeBulkHomogeneousMongoQuery(MyModel, data);
###

Date-Time

Default ENV Configurations

-NA-

Usage Example

const { datetime } = require('general-utilities');

# default date format = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'
# all keywords momentjs compliant

const format = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss';
const now = datetime.now(); // returns moment obj
# if format is not passed, default date-format is taken
const someDate1 = datetime.getDateObj('2023-04-01', format); // returns moment obj
const someDate2 = datetime.formatDate(someDate1, format); // returns string

## similarly, other functions can be used

# say adding 2 days to date
const futureDate = datetime.addDaysToDate(now, 2, format);
const futureHour = datetime.addHoursToDate(now, 1, format);

# below function gives a slight ahead time, usually to be used for TTL purposes
const futureSec = datetime.addDeltaToMoment(600, now, 'seconds');
# can also be used as below, defaults: (delta=600seconds, time=current-datetime, definition='seconds')
const futureSec = datetime.addDeltaToMoment(); // will give a time 5 minutes in future
const futureSec = datetime.addDeltaToMoment(60); // will give a time 1 minute in future

# calculating difference between dates in days,hours,minutes,seconds --default days
const dateDiff = datetime.dateDifferenceBetween(now, futureDate, 'days'); // should return 2

URL

Default ENV Configurations

-NA-

Usage Example

const { url } = require('general-utilities');

const base64Encoded = url.encodeURI('hello'); // equivalent to btoa() of javascript
const base64Decoded = url.decodeURI(base64Encoded); // equivalent to atob() of javascript

String

Default ENV Configurations

-NA-

Usage Example

const { string } = require('general-utilities');

const lines1 = string.splitTextInLinesByLength('hello', '2'); // returns ['he', 'll', 'o']
const lines2 = string.splitWordsInLinesByMaxLineLength('a quick brown fox', 5); // returns ['a', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox']

# below function is helpful when you work in a json format and need to somehow read non-json data like xml for a puny purpose like checking response status if its success or not, using below, you can capture a value between tags e.g. <status>success</status>, string.getStringBetweenStrings(basetext, '<status>', '</status>') will return 'success'
const substring = string.getStringBetweenStrings('a quick brown fox', 'quick', 'fox'); // returns ' brown '

Profiler

Default ENV Configurations

# change to Y to make it active
PROFILER_ACTIVE = N
# give path to record cpu-analysis files 
PROFILER_OUTPUT_DIR = cpuprofile

Usage Example

const { profiler } = require('general-utilities');

# call start and end functions between the code block which you wish to analyse
profiler.start('Some identifier say: MyFunction');
// your code in between
profiler.finish('Some identifier say: MyFunction');

# this will generate files that can be anlaysed either by some tool on in browser [by importing cpu files]

Note

This package will help you manage your day-to-date tasks easily without having to create your own commons library separately. Let me know if you need more utility functions.