Arcade

Miscellaneous utility functions. Check out the documentation site for available functions.

Overview

This is a collection of utility functions commonly used in other @laserware (and non-@laserware) projects. It's essentially a combination of "Diet Lodash", TypeScript helpers, and helper functions for performing certain tasks based on the execution environment (i.e. Node.js versus the browser).

Why don't use just use Lodash?

Lodash is super beefy. If you don't want to ship a lot of unused extra code, you have to use lodash-es. Most of Lodash's functions aren't needed anymore. You probably don't need Lodash.

Why did you vendor some libraries instead of just installing and re-exporting them?

To avoid constantly managing dependency updates. If a library is less than 100 lines of code, I'm going to just copy the code, give props, and include the license.

Why did you install and re-export some libraries?

For the same reason that I vendor them: to avoid constantly managing dependency updates for libraries that are used in several projects. I just need to update it here and publish a new version, then I only need to update one dependency (this one) in the affected projects.