Node Units

A unit conversion library for Node.JS that comes with a default unit conversion database and the ability to extend the database with custom metrics.

Installing

npm install node-units

Usage

node-units comes with a few built in functions:

• importDB(file_name, cb) - imports a custom unit database, cb takes a single argument err
• importDBSync(file_name) - the sync version of importDB
• getDB() - returns he currently used database of units as an object
• convert(type, value, from, to) - converts value of from to to, returns the result or raises exception if conversion cannot be made

Simple Usage

var units = require('node-units');

var result = units.convert('volume', 5, 'gill', 'mL');
// result == 591.4705

units.convert(units.types.TIME, 5, 'day', 'second');

Custom Units

With node-units you can import custom unit definitions from files defined like the following:

group:
  long_name,longname,ln		1ln
  another_unit,au		5ln
  one_more,om			2au

var units = require('node-units');

units.importDBSync('my_custom.units');

var result = units.convert(units.types.GROUP, 5, 'au', 'one_more');
// result == 10

With custom units you can also overwrite any previously defined units.

time:
  minute,m		50s

var units = require('node-units');

units.importDBSync('my_custom.units');

var result = units.convert('time', 5, 'minute', 's');
// result == 250

License

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2013 Brett Langdon

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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