CODE EXAMPLE FOR JAVASCRIPT

replace html encodings node.js

const decodeEntities = (encodedString) => {
    var translate_re = /&(nbsp|amp|quot|lt|gt);/g;
    var translate = {
        "nbsp":" ",
        "amp" : "&",
        "quot": """,
        "lt"  : "<",
        "gt"  : ">"
    };
    return encodedString.replace(translate_re, function(match, entity) {
        return translate[entity];
    }).replace(/&#(d+);/gi, function(match, numStr) {
        var num = parseInt(numStr, 10);
        return String.fromCharCode(num);
    });
};