@pderas/vue2-utilities NPM

Vue Utilities

A vue.js utilities plugin

Installation

npm install --save @pderas/vue2-utilities

How to initialize Vue Utilities

Vue utilities is built as a vue plugin to allow for general purpose functions to be used throughout the application

import Utilities from "@pderas/vue2-utilities";

// or just Vue.use(Utilities);
Vue.use(Utilities, {
    extendDate: true,
    extendNumber: true,
    extendString: true
});

Usage

General usage: this.$utils.[FUNCTION_NAME]

// RedirectTo Example
this.$utils.redirectTo('/login')

Functions

name	Parameter	Type	Description	Return
createDate	timestamp	String	Creates a date object from a database timestamp and returns a date object in UTC	Date
getParent	el identifier	HTMLElement String	Finds the closest parent element with the given identifier	HTMLElement
getUrlParams	url	String	Converts the url parameters into an object	Object
printView	html, timeout	String, Number	Create a print screen for the view given, default timeout is 500ms	N/A
nl2br	str is_xhtml	String Boolean	Converts all newline characters in a string into 'br' tag	String
redirectTo	url	String	Redirects the window to a new url (based off hostname url)	N/A
safeActiveElement	doc	HTMLElement	Gets the active element safely from the doc	HTMLElement
shadeColor	color percent	String Number	Takes a color and a percent and shades that color	String

Required parameters are bolded

Prototypes

Date

Name	Parameter	Type	Default	Description	Return
addTimezoneOffset				Modifies the date object by adding the timezone offset.	N/A
format	format	String	'M d Y'	Converts the date to a custom formatted string (month day, year @ time)	String
getMinutesString				Gets the minute string for a date.	String
getHoursString				Gets the hour string for a date.	String
removeTimezoneOffset				Modifies the date object by removing the timezone offset.	N/A
subMinutes	date	Date		Substracts the minutes of one date from another	Number
~~toFormattedString~~	~~monthDisplay, showTime~~	~~String, Boolean~~	~~'short', true~~	Depreciated. Please use the format prototype.	~~String~~

Required parameters are bolded

Number

Name	Parameter	Type	Default	Description	Return
precisionRound	precision	Number	0	Rounds a number to the specified precision	Number
toCommaString				Converts a number to a comma seperated string	String
toDollarString	showDollarSign	Boolean	true	Converts a number to a dollar string	String

Required parameters are bolded

String

Name	Parameter	Type	Description	Return
capitalize			Capitalizes the first character	String
capitalizeAll	delim	String	Capitalizes all characters (delim defaults to space)	String
spacesToChar	char	String	Converts spaces to specified character	String
stripSlashes			Removes slashes	String
stripPeriods			Removes periods	String
stripDashes			Removes dashes	String
toAlphaNumeric			Coverts a string to alpha numeric	String