id-number: JavaScript ID Number Toolkit

JavaScript ID Number Toolkit is a collection of validators of identity document number for JavaScript applications.

Visit the DEMO website!

Usage

Installation

You can install IDNumber by

• directly import in browser

  <script src="IDNumber.js"></script>
  <!-- Please edit the URL above. -->

  Download latest build.

  A CDN for this file is available at:

  https://unpkg.com/id-number/dist/browser/IDNumber.js
  

• using in node.js or webpack

  The library is available at NPM with name id-number.

  You can import it via require.

  const IDNumber = require('id-number');

  Or in ES6 style.

  import IDNumber from 'id-number';

ID Number Validation

const validator = IDNumber.getValidator('SG', 'NRIC');
const result = validator('S0980292D');

And the result is in format:

{
    'success': true or false,
    'reason': string if the result is false
}

ID Number Generation

const generator = IDNumber.getValidator('CN', 'ID');
const result = generator();

And the result is in format:

{
    'value': 466311201110053638,
    'extra': {"province":"海南","birthday":"2011-10-05","gender":"Male"}
}

Available Validators

Development

To build: npm run build

To test: npm test

Add support for new identity documentations

Step 1: Write the validator / generator in TypeScript in the directory src/providers/<name>.ts. The validator shall be a function returning a InternalValidateResult.

Step 2: Register the validator / generator in src/IDNumber.ts

Step 3: Write test cases at src/<name>.spec.ts.

Step 4: Send a pull request to this repository.

Thank you for the contributions.

Demo Website

The source code for demo website (id-number.dreamrunner.space) locates at the demo folder.

To deploy, go into demo folder and type yarn deploy if you have permission.

Bonus

We have a very good wiki that explain the algorithm of the ID number checksum used by different identity documents.