Functions for dealing with and converting between quantities of mass, volume, density and energy
npm install quantity-fns
](https://npmjs.com/quantity-fns)
At this early stage it is still missing many features and units (See Notice).
Please feel free to fork and raise a pull request to add functionailty you deem widely useful within this domain (See Contributions).
The below examples are given in TypeScript, but should be easily adapted to JavaScript. TypeScript definitions are bundled with the package.
``bash`
npm install quantity-fns --saveor with yarn
yarn add quantity-fns
#### Parsing a quantity
`typescript
import { parse, format } from "quantity-fns"
// Parsing
parse("10 meters") // === { unit: 'meters', quantity: 10, type: 'distance' }
parse("10 ml") // === { unit: 'ml', quantity: 10, type: 'volume' }
parse("10 kg") // === { unit: 'kg', quantity: 10, type: 'mass' }
parse("10 mi", {type: 'mass'}) // throws "mi is not a unit of mass"
parse("1,3 km", {locales: 'de-DE'}) // === { unit: 'km', quantity: 1.3, type: 'distance' }
// Formatting
format(parse("1 km")) // === "1 km"
// Formatting with locale
format(parse("1.300,02 km", {locales: 'de-DE'})) // === "1,300.02 km"
format(parse("1,300.02 km"), {locales: 'de-DE'}) // === "1.300,02 km"
`
#### Converting mass (eg. kilos into grams)
`typescript`
import { convert as convertMass } from "quantity-fns/mass"
convertMass({
unit: 'kg',
quantity: 10,
type: 'mass'
}, 'g') // === {unit: 'g', quantity: 10000}
#### Converting volume (eg. Millilitres to Litres)
`typescript`
import { convert as convertVolume } from "quantity-fns/volume"
convertVolume({
unit: 'ml',
quantity: 10,
type: 'volume'
}, 'L') // === {unit: 'L', quantity: 10000}
#### Converting distance (eg. Miles to Kilometers)
`typescript`
import { convert as convertDistance } from "quantity-fns/distance"
convertDistance({
unit: 'mi',
quantity: 1,
type: 'distance'
}, 'km') // === { unit: 'km', quantity: 1.609 }
#### Calculating mass of volume and density (eg. 1L of water)
`typescript`
import { volumeToMass } from "quantity-fns/volume"
import { DensityOf } from "quantity-fns/density";
volumeToMass({
unit: 'ml',
quantity: 100,
type: 'volume'
}, DensityOf.Water /, "g"/) // === {quantity: 100, unit: "g", type: "mass"}
#### Convert energy (eg. Joules to Kilocalories)
`typescript`
import { convert as convertEnergy } from "quantity-fns/energy"
convertEnergy({
unit: 'J',
quantity: 100,
type: 'energy'
}, 'kcal') // === { quantity: 0.0239, unit: 'kcal', type: 'energy' }
typescript
import { convert as convertDensity } from "quantity-fns/density"
convertDensity({
unit: 'lb/ft3',
quantity: 1,
type: 'density'
}, 'kg/m3') // === { quantity: 16.0184, unit: 'kg/m3', type: 'density' }
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The library is written with TypeScript, and uses the Mocha and chai frameworks. It has no dependencies save for the scant development dependencies.The unit tests are using the Chai assertion framework.
bash
Clone the project using git
git clone git@github.com:oparaskos/quantity-fns.git
cd quantity-fns
npm i # Install the dev dependencies
Run the tests using mocha, with ts-node
npm run test
Produce the
dist/ folder containing javascript
npm run build
``At this early stage this library cannot be garunteed to be as accurate as needed for many use cases, there may exist flaws and issues inherent to any software project which are not tested against. For this reason libraries such as this one may not be suitable for mission critical applications such as medical devices.
If you do decide to use this library in such applications please be thorough in your testing.
However in the interest of developing this further you may wish to open a pull request against this library to test, prove and improve the accuracy of the results. This kind of contribution is greatly appreciated (See Contributions).
This Library and its source code is licensed under the ISC license.
Copyright © 2019, Oliver Paraskos
Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
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Source: http://opensource.org/licenses/ISC
Contributions can be made by submitting a pull request against the github project
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