UsingJS by InventiStudio

Minimal, easy to use chaining lib 🚀

Getting started

Install:

• Npm:

  npm install @inventistudio/using-js

• Yarn:

  yarn add @inventistudio/using-js

Import:

• ES5:

  var using = require('@inventistudio/using-js')

• Yarn:

  import using from '@inventistudio/using-js'

Example

You can easily use it with your own methods or any functional library (e.g. RamdaJS)

import R from 'ramda'
import using from '@inventistudio/using-js'

// Data
const response = [
  { name: 'Zulu', age: 12,   role: 'admin' },
  { name: 'John', age: 20,   role: 'user'  },
  { name: 'Don',  age: null, role: 'owner' },
]

// Params
const onlyAdults = false
const sortBy     = 'role'

// 🚀 Chain 🚀
const persons = using(response)
  // Get only with age
  .do(R.filter(person => person.age))
  // Get only adluts if it's required (boolean condition example)
  .doIf(onlyAdults, R.filter(person => person.age >= 18))
  // Throw error unless persons array is not empty (functional condition example)
  .doUnless(persons => persons.length, () => { throw new Error('Empty array') })
  // Alow only sorting by age and name (default)
  .switch(sortBy, {
    age:     R.sortBy(R.prop('age')),
    default: R.sortBy(R.prop('name'))
  })
  // Get value
  .value()

console.log(persons)
// >
/*
[
  { name: 'John', age: 20, role: 'user' },
  { name: 'Zulu', age: 12, role: 'admin' },
]
*/

API

using(data : Any) : wrapper

It wraps data and returns object which contains below methods

using([1,2,4])
using({ name: 'Mike' })
using(10)
...you get it.

wrapper.value() : Any

Returns value.

using(1).value() // 1

wrapper.do(func : Function (data : Any -> wrapper))

It invokes func with data passed

// vanilla js
using([1,2,4])
  .do((arr) => arr.length)
  .value() // 3

// with ramda
using([1,2,4])
  .do(R.filter(n => n%2===0))
  .value() // [2,4]
...

wrapper.doIf(condition : Any, func : Function (data : Any -> Any)) : wrapper

It invokes func with data passed if condition is "truthy". Otherwise returns wrapper. If condition is function, it'll be invoked with data passed

// boolean condition
const onlyEven = true
using([1,2,4])
  .doIf(onlyEven, R.filter(n => n%2===0))
  .value() // [2,4] or [1,2,4] if onlyEven = false

// functional condition
using([1,2,4])
  .doIf((arr) => arr.length, R.filter(n => n%2===0))
  .value() // [2,4]
...

wrapper.doUnless(condition : Any, func : Function (data : Any -> data : Any)) : wrapper

It invokes func with data passed if condition is "falsy". Otherwise returns wrapper. If condition is function, it'll be invoked with data passed

// boolean condition
const withOdds = true
using([1,2,4])
  .doUnless(withOdds, R.filter(n => n%2===0))
  .value() // [1,2,4] or [1,2] if withOdds = false

wrapper.doIfElse(condition : Any, funcTruthy : Function (data : Any -> Any), funcFalsy : Function (data : Any -> Any)) : wrapper

It invokes funcTruthy with data passed if condition is "truthy". Otherwise it invokes funcFalsy. If condition is function, it'll be invoked with data passed

using(user)
  .doIfElse(hasPermission, fetchData, askForPermission)
  .value()
...

wrapper.switch([functionName : Any], Object<Any, Function (data : Any -> data : Any)>) : wrapper

It invokes object[functionName] with data passed. If it not exists, it tries to invoke object['default']. If function name is skipped, it uses data as functionName. It returns wrapper if there is no default case.

// boolean condition
const withOdds = true
using([1,2,4])
  .switch((arr) => `has${arr.length}Elements`, {
    has1Elements() {
      return 'Single'
    },
    has2Elemenets() {
      return 'Pair'
    }
    default() {
      return 'Group'
    }
  })
  .value() // 'Group'

wrapper.debug(logFunction : Function (Any) : Void) : wrapper

It calls passed function without mutating data

// with ramda
using([1,2,4])
  .do(R.filter(n => n%2===0))
  .debug(console.log)
  .value() // [2,4]

Asynchronous functions

using.async(value) allows you to use functions that returns promises. Speaking more specifically, if value is a promise, function will be invoked as data.then(func) instead of func(data).

const post = { title: 'Lorem ipsum...', content: '   test   ' }

const newPost = await using.async(post)
  .do(sanitizeContent) // result = sanitizeContent(post)
  .do(Post.create)     // result = Post.create(result) -- function returns Promise ⚠️
  .do(mapWithAuthor)   // result = result.then(mapWithAuthor) ❤️
  .value()