is-primitive

Returns true if the value is a primitive.

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Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save is-primitive

Primitive values

The Mozilla docs for "Primitive values" defines specifies six data types that are primitives:

• Boolean
• Null
• Undefined
• Number
• String
• Symbol (new in ECMAScript 6)

Usage

var isPrimitive = require('is-primitive');

true

All of the following return true:

console.log(isPrimitive(false));
console.log(isPrimitive(true));
console.log(isPrimitive(null));
console.log(isPrimitive());
console.log(isPrimitive(42));
console.log(isPrimitive('abc'));
console.log(isPrimitive(Symbol()));
//=> true

false

Everything else returns false:

console.log(isPrimitive({}));
console.log(isPrimitive([]));
console.log(isPrimitive(function(){}));
console.log(isPrimitive(new Date()));
// et cetera...
//=> false

About

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Running Tests

Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:

$ npm install && npm test

Building docs

(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)

To generate the readme, run the following command:

$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb

Related projects

You might also be interested in these projects:

• is-number: Returns true if the value is a number. comprehensive tests. | homepage
• is-plain-object: Returns true if an object was created by the Object constructor. | homepage
• kind-of: Get the native type of a value. | homepage

Contributors

Commits	Contributor
11	jonschlinkert
1	ljharb
1	bttmly
1	hemanth

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2017, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT License.

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