Convert HTML to plain text in JS without browser environment

Question

I have a CouchDB view map function that generates an abstract of a stored HTML document (first x characters of text). Unfortunately I have no browser environmen

Answer 1

Updated @EpokK answer for html to email text version use-case

const htmltoText = (html: string) => {
  let text = html;
  text = text.replace(/\n/gi, "");
  text = text.replace(//gi, "");
  text = text.replace(//gi, "");
  text = text.replace(/(.*?)<\/a.*?>/gi, " $2 $1 ");
  text = text.replace(/<\/div>/gi, "\n\n");
  text = text.replace(/<\/li>/gi, "\n");
  text = text.replace(//gi, "  *  ");
  text = text.replace(/<\/ul>/gi, "\n\n");
  text = text.replace(/<\/p>/gi, "\n\n");
  text = text.replace(//gi, "\n");
  text = text.replace(/<[^>]+>/gi, "");
  text = text.replace(/^\s*/gim, "");
  text = text.replace(/ ,/gi, ",");
  text = text.replace(/ +/gi, " ");
  text = text.replace(/\n+/gi, "\n\n");
  return text;
};