Pipe

A tiny collection of JS functions to facilitate piping, composition and basic currying.

Install

Using you favourite package manager:

yarn add @tidbits/pipe

or

npm i @tidbits/pipe

Usage

Via import's import { compose, pipe, args } from '@tidbits/pipe';

Via require const { compose, pipe, args } = require('@tidbits/pipe');

Functions

pipe(initialValue, fns)

• initialValue (any): The initial value passed to the first function in the pipeline.
• fns (Array): An array of functions to chain together.

Returns the result of initialValue being passed down the chain of provided functions.

compose(fns)

• fns (Array): An array of functions to chain together.

Returns a new function with 1 parameter, which can be called anywhere.

args(fn, ...)

• fn (Function): A function to curry.
• ... (Any): Any number of additional arguments to supply to fn after the first argument when called.

Returns a new function expecting 1 parameter, which can be called anywhere.

Examples

Pipe

import { pipe } from '@tidbits/pipe';

const uppercase = str => str.toUpperCase();
const exclaim = str => `${str}!`;

pipe('functional', [
  uppercase,
  exclaim,
  console.log,
]);

// FUNCTIONAL!

Composition

import { compose } from '@tidbits/pipe';

const uppercase = str => str.toUpperCase();
const exclaim = str => `${str}!`;

const shout = compose([
  uppercase,
  exclaim,
]);

console.log(shout('functional'));

// FUNCTIONAL!

Additional Arguments

import { compose, pipe, args } from '@tidbits/pipe';

const uppercase = str => str.toUpperCase();
const exclaim = str => `${str}!`;
const repeat = (str, times = 1) => str.repeat(times);

const shout = compose([
  uppercase,
  exclaim,
]);

pipe('functional', [
  shout,
  args(repeat, 3),
  console.log,
]);

// FUNCTIONAL!FUNCTIONAL!FUNCTIONAL!