How to handle badwords in Node.js ?

The bad-words module is used to handle the badwords by cleaning the given string. It is a JavaScript filter for bad words. This module searches for the profane words and replaces them with placeholder characters.

Feature of bad-words module:

1. It is easy to get started and easy to use.
2. It is widely used and popular filter for badwords.

Installation of bad-words module:

1. You can visit the link to Install bad-words module. You can install this package by using this command.

   npm install bad-words

2. After installing bad-words module you can check your request version in command prompt using the command.

   npm version bad-words

3. After that, you can create a folder and add a file, for example index.js. To run this file you need to run the following command.

   node index.js

Filename: index.js

var Filter = require('bad-words');

var filter = new Filter();

filter.addWords('bad', 'dumb'); // Add your own words

console.log(filter.clean("Hello, I am not a bad ******"));

var new_filter = new Filter({ placeHolder: '$' });

console.log(new_filter.clean("Hello, I am not a bad ******"));

Steps to run the program:

1. The project structure will look like this:
   
2. Make sure you have installed bad-words module using following command:

   npm install bad-words

3. Run index.js file using below command:

   node index.js

   

So this is how you can use a bad-words module that handles bad words by cleaning the given string.

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