A Javascript library for fixing the capitalization of people's names.
It is heavily based on the Perl Lingua-EN-NameCase module.
Version 3.x is now an ESM module and requires Node.js 20.x
namecase provides two functions:
checkName() which returns true if the name is in all UPPERCASE or lowercase.
namecase(string or array, { individualFields: boolean }) returns a properly capitalized name.
The option individualFields defaults to false which works best when the person's names
are combined into a single field. If individualFields is set to true, it means you're
passing in given and surnames separately. The only difference between these two options is
with individualFields set to false, the first character is always capitalized.
import { namecase } from '@compwright/namecase';
console.log(namecase('WILLIAM MCKINLEY'));Namecase can also be executed from the command line via namecase, which accepts data
from STDIN and outputs the formatted names to STDOUT.
$ npm install -g @compwright/namecase
$ echo "jonathon hill" | bin/namecase