validate email addresses, dates, etc in JavaScript

validations.js

/*
take an approach leveraging the platform implementation's internal parser for things to validate,
if it works in these on the user-experience side confirm the input is as-intended
possibly by entering the same value twice or similar user-controlled validation

email and date validation is too complex for pattern matching;
*/

function validEmail(email=''){
	var $0, url, isValid = false, emailPatternInput = /^[^@]{1,64}@[^@]{4,253}$/, emailPatternUrl = /^[^@]{1,64}@[a-z][a-z0-9\.-]{3,252}$/i;
	email = email.trim();
	try{
		// handles punycode, etc using browser's own maintained implementation
		url = new URL('http://'+email);
		$0 = `${url.username}@${url.hostname}`;
		isValid = emailPatternInput.test( email );
		if(!isValid) throw 'invalid email pattern on input:' + email;
		isValid = emailPatternUrl.test( $0 );
		if(!isValid) throw 'invalid email pattern on url:' + $0;
		console.log(`email looks legit "${email}" checking url-parts: "${$0 === email ? '-SAME-':$0}"`);
	}catch(err){
		console.error(`probably not an email address: "${email}"`, err);
	};
	return isValid;
}

[
 'user+this@はじめよう.みんな'
, 'stuff@things'
, '[email protected]'
, 'Jean+Franç[email protected]','هيا@יאללה'
, '试@例子.测试.مثال.آزمایشی'
, 'not@@really'
, 'no'
].forEach(email=>console.log(validEmail(email), email));