Properly truncate text in Typescript

I’ve often dealt with a situation where I’m trying to display a description in a card but I want to cap the length of that text. So the first version always look something like text.slice(0, MAX_LENGTH). But then you get this:

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So I rolled up my sleeves and built a smarter utility:

function truncate(text: string) {}

And here’s what it looks now:

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