How to remove `<` and `>` characters

Thanks for maintaining slugify.

I want to strip < and > characters from strings, but for some reason they always convert to less and greater respectively. Is there a way to do this?

Here’s my input, expected result, and actual result:

slugify('Hello <world>', {
    replacement: '',
    remove: /[=_'\-+,<>.()[\]]/g,
    lower: true,
    strict: true
  })

// expected: `helloworld`
// actual: `hellolessworldgreater`

Here is my workaround:

slugify('Hello <world>'.replace(/[<>]/g, ''), {
    replacement: '',
    remove: /[=_'\-+,<>.()[\]]/g,
    lower: true,
    strict: true
  })

// output: `helloworld`

[Trott]

@theetrain In that case, you might want to use slug instead of slugify. Assuming you want only Latin alphabet characters, by default slug will only produce those. slugify will preserve many special characters. Given the input 'We Got Symbols Like ~!@*()_+', slugify will output 'We-Got-Symbols-Like-~!@*()_+' by default, while slug will output 'we-got-symbols-like' by default.

I also probably wouldn’t use two slug rules. Unless there’s an important reason, I’d suggest using slug() to create the user handle, and then using String.prototype.replaceAll() create the email handle.

const slug = require('slug')

function makeHandles(name) {
  const userHandle = slug(name)
  const emailHandle = userHandle.replaceAll('-', '')
  return ({ userHandle, emailHandle })
}

console.log(makeHandles('John Doe'))
console.log(makeHandles('Super Company©'))
console.log(makeHandles('Super Company™'))
console.log(makeHandles('We Got Symbols Like ~!@*()_+'))

Output:

{ userHandle: 'john-doe', emailHandle: 'johndoe' }
{ userHandle: 'super-company', emailHandle: 'supercompany' }
{ userHandle: 'super-company', emailHandle: 'supercompany' }
{ userHandle: 'we-got-symbols-like', emailHandle: 'wegotsymbolslike' }

[Trott]

(Closing because I think you have your answer, but if not, feel free to re-open and/or comment.)