@cashmoney/number NPM

Number

This package is a wrapper around the BigNumber class provided by bignumber.js, designed to provide a string-only representation of arbitrary-precision decimal numbers. This package provides several niceties on top of what is normally available with BigNumber, with the aim of being difficult to misuse. The ideal situation is to replace all usages of the default JavaScript Number type with the Num class found in this package.

This was born out of the need to introduce "big number" support to CashMoney, my port of MoneyPHP to JavaScript. Originally, the number class was rather limited, and didn't support arithmetic operations on arbitrary-precision numbers. This package is designed to replace that entirely, bringing it into a public interface.

Features

Full arithmetic support for arbitrary-precision decimal numbers
JSON serialization
Inter-operation with existing BigNumber instances

Install

With yarn:

$ yarn add @cashmoney/number

Or with npm:

$ npm add @cashmoney/number

Example usage

import { Num } from "@cashmoney/number";
import BigNumber from "bignumber.js";

const fiveBigNum = new BigNumber(5);

const fiveFromNumber = new Num(5);
const fiveFromString = new Num("5");
const fiveFromBigNum = new Num(fiveBigNum);

console.log(fiveFromNumber.equals(fiveFromString)) // outputs true
console.log(fiveFromString.equals(fiveFromBigNum)) // outputs true
console.log(fiveFromBigNum.equals(fiveFromNumber)) // outputs true

console.log(String(fiveFromNumber.add(5))); // outputs "10"
console.log(String(fiveFromNumber.add("5"))); // outputs "10"
console.log(String(fiveFromNumber.add(fiveFromString))); // outputs "10"
console.log(String(fiveFromString.add(fiveBigNum))); // outputs "10"
console.log(fiveFromString.add(5).subtract(5).equals(fiveFromString)) // outputs true

console.log(fiveBigNum.isEqualTo(fiveFromString.num)); // outputs true

Support for `BigNumber.clone()`

bignumber.js lets you create "clones" of the main BigNumber constructor with different settings. This lets you have multiple different BigNumber classes in your application, each with different defaults.

This functionality is fully supported out of the box by Number.

import { Num } from "@cashmoney/number";
import BigNumber from "bignumber.js";

const BN = BigNumber.clone({ DECIMAL_PLACES: 10 });
Num.BigNumber = BN;

The new constructor function BN will now be used for all constructions of BigNumber performed by the Num class.

If you actually need to do this for some reason, it's strongly recommended that you do this once in your application bootstrap code, before any instances of Num are created. Otherwise, you'll likely end up with various weird behaviours in your application. You'll also need to be careful if you're constructing your own instances of BigNumber in your application and passing them to instances of Num.

Most of the time, you should be able to get away with using BigNumber.config() instead. This will automatically take effect for all instances of (the default) BigNumber constructor (which Num uses by default).