Ember nl2br helper

nl2br.js

Ember.Handlebars.registerBoundHelper('nl2br', function (text) {
    
    var breakTag = '<br />';

  return new Handlebars.SafeString((text + '')
    .replace(/([^>\r\n]?)(\r\n|\n\r|\r|\n)/g, '$1' + breakTag + '$2'));
});

nl2br helper for ember version > 2.0

import Ember from 'ember';

const {
  Helper: { helper },
  String: { htmlSafe }
} = Ember;

export function nl2br([text]) {
  var breakTag = '<br />';
  return new htmlSafe((text + '').replace(/([^>\r\n]?)(\r\n|\n\r|\r|\n)/g, '$1' + breakTag + '$2'));
}

export default helper(nl2br);

With sanitized user input and string interpolation (because)

import Ember from 'ember';

const {
  Handlebars: { Utils: { escapeExpression }},
  Helper: { helper },
  String: { htmlSafe }
} = Ember;

export function nl2br([text]) {
  var breakTag = '<br />';
  return new htmlSafe(`${escapeExpression(text)}`.replace(/([^>\r\n]?)(\r\n|\n\r|\r|\n)/g, '$1' + breakTag + '$2'));
}

export default helper(nl2br);