validate-email-shootout

node-validate-email-shootout
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A shootout test of node-validate-email

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Wat
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Dude, seriously, how many email validators are there out there? How hard are
they to pick between?

I got tired of it. I'm making a proof of it.

I'm going to release a better email validator soon. I'm not done yet, but my
prerelease is already spitting distance behind best I can find. (I'm coming for you, Steve.)





It's data time!
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Of a possible 266 (better numbers are on their way soon) :

| Score | Pct | Name |
|-------|-----|------|
| 195/266 | 73.31 | Steve |
| 195 | 73.31 | validator |
| 195 | 73.31 | validate-email |
| 194 | 72.93 | bvl from StackOverflow |
| 194 | 72.93 | Parsley |
| 190 | 71.43 | Sectrean |
| 174 | 65.41 | RFC2822 HTML5 |
| 165 | 62.03 | Fighting for a Lost Cause |
| 156 | 58.65 | Sitepoint |
| 153 | 57.52 | Tugrul Asik |
| 153 | 57.52 | Microsoft |
| 153 | 57.52 | JsKit |
| 149 | 56.02 | Naive @ and . test |
| 145 | 54.51 | Voyager w/ brackets |
| 132 | 49.62 | Voyager locked |

Winner:

> Steve

... for now. My package is tied with his regex (because I copied it,) so he gets the win.

Improvements incoming. :smile:





How, please
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First, I gathered a bunch of email test data, and put it into packages like
testdata-valid-email,
testdata-invalid-email, and
testdata-newtld-email, from
excellent community resources like
Fighting for a Lost Cause.

Then, I made a mechanic to test them one at a time, and count the results.

Finally, I gathered as many email validators as I could find, and I leveraged them.





Polemic :neckbeard:
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node-validate-email-shootout is MIT licensed, because viral licenses and newspeak language modification are evil. Free is only free when it's free for everyone.