# is-primitive [![NPM version](https://badge.fury.io/js/is-primitive.svg)](http://badge.fury.io/js/is-primitive) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/is-primitive.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/is-primitive) > Returns `true` if the value is a primitive. ## Install with [npm](npmjs.org) ```bash npm i is-primitive --save ``` ## Running tests Install dev dependencies. ```bash npm i -d && npm test ``` ## Usage ```js var isPrimitive = require('is-primitive'); isPrimitive('abc'); //=> true isPrimitive(42); //=> true isPrimitive(false); //=> true isPrimitive(true); //=> true isPrimitive({}); //=> false isPrimitive([]); //=> false isPrimitive(function(){}); //=> false ``` ## Author **Jon Schlinkert** + [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) + [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert) ## License Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Jon Schlinkert Released under the MIT license *** _This file was generated by [verb-cli](https://github.com/assemble/verb-cli) on March 16, 2015._