checked-constants

Grepable typo-resistant namespaced constants

Example

//// constants.js
const cc = require('checked-constants')

// define single
cc`my/namespace/pi ${3}`

// define multiple
cc`my/namespace/
                foo       ${'Fooooooo!'}
                frobulate ${123}`

//// file1.js
const cc = require('checked-constants')

const msg = { type: cc`my/namespace/foo` } // reference shared constant

Purpose

String constants are easily mistyped. Aggregating constants in objects makes constants harder to grep and can still be mistyped. This libary is meant to provide a minimal syntax to define and reference constants in a safer and more consistent way.

Downsides

• Users could still use names other than cc and format the template in hard to grep ways.
• Constant is only checked if called. Better would be if this were a Babel transform to at least get compile-time errors if not editor feedback.