keycodemap

A small library to map keycodes to key names. Examples:

64 = 'A'
59 = 'SEMICOLON'
...

Features

You can change the keyboard layout by country string defined after ISO 3166-1 . Example for United States of America = "US". You can pass in a javascript key event or the key code as a number to get the Name.

Currently available maps

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United States of America ("US") Germany ("DE")

Usage

Install the package using npm with npm install --save keycodemap.

Import it to your project

const keycodemap = require('keycodemap');

The default location is 'US'. Now you can use map() to get the key names:

// event is a javascript key event or a number
var name = keycodemap.map(event);

// e.g. if the key code was 59 it will print 'SEMICOLON'
console.log(name);

To change the locale, just call

// newLocationString i a ISO 3166-1 string e.g. "DE"
keycodemap.useMap(newLocationString);