props-check

Check your props and give a helpful error if you've mis-typed.

Installation

npm install props-check

Requiring the module

const PropsCheck = require('props-check')

PropsCheck

PropsCheck checks props against the spec and returns a map with list of possible corrections.

// Example spec
const spec = {
  read: 'Function'
, sanitize: '[Function]'
, validate: '[Function]'
, normalize: '[Function]'
};
 
 
// Example object
const test = {
  raed: () => null
, santize: [ () => null ]
, alvidate: [ () => null ]
, normalize: [ () => null ]
, format: [ () => null ]
};
 
 
const result = PropsCheck(spec, test);

result:

  { raed: [ 'read' ]
  , santize: [ 'sanitize' ]
  , alvidate: [ 'validate' ]
  , normalize: []
  , format: []
  }

PropsCheck returns null if spec and test have the exact same props.

PropsCheck.custom

PropsCheck.custom takes a custom comparator and returns a function that is similar to PropsCheck.

const comparator = (a, b) => a < b;
 
const result = PropsCheck.custom(comparator)(spec, test);

PropsCheck.human

PropsCheck.human accepts the same arguments as PropsCheck but returns a more helpful error message.

const result = PropsCheck.human(spec, test);

result:

    You gave me this:

      {
        raed: …,
        santize: …,
        alvidate: …,
        normalize: …
      }

    I wasn't expecting:

      { raed: …, santize: …, alvidate: … }

    You didn't give me:

      { read: …, sanitize: …, validate: … }

    Here's how to fix it:

      raed <-> read
      santize <-> sanitize
      alvidate <-> validate

    I have no idea what this mean:

      { format: …, }

PropsCheck.customHuman

PropsCheck.customHuman takes a custom message map and returns a function that is similar to PropsCheck.human.

const customMessages = {
  given: [ "This is what I got:", … ]
, unexpected: [ "Something is not right..", … ]
, missing: [ "I'm looking for this:", … ]
, conclusion: [ "I suggest the following changes:", … ]
, clueless: [ "I have no idea what these are:", … ]
};
 
const result = PropsCheck.customHuman(customMessages)(spec, test);

Custom messages will be used randomly if more than 1 message is provided in the list. If a property of the customMessages is misspelled or if a list is empty, default messages will be used instead.

Misc things

• If you use PropsCheck.custom and provide your own comparator, make sure that the comparator accepts 2 arguments and returns either 0 on equal, 1 on similar, or -1 on mismatch.
• All functions are curried. Meaning that the following:

PropsCheck(spec)(test);
PropsCheck.custom(comparator)(spec)(test);
PropsCheck.human(spec)(test);
PropsCheck.customHuman(customMessages)(spec)(test);

are the same as:

PropsCheck(spec, test);
PropsCheck.custom(comparator)(spec, test);
PropsCheck.human(spec, test);
PropsCheck.customHuman(customMessages)(spec, test);