The summary

Base is a lightweight framework for creating consistent, highly readable, chainable and inheritable object prototypes in Javascript. This git repo is for an NPM module for use with Node. It can be used in the browser so long as you manually satisfy the Underscore dependency. You're already using Underscore though, anyway, right?

The detail

Example

// Require base...
var base = require('base');

// create a base child. Add the default 'init' constructor which is
// executed automatically when the object is invoked, and another 
// instance method.

var MyFactory = base.createChild()
	.AddInstanceMethods({
		init : function( args ){
			this.args = args;
			return this;
		},
		spewArgs : function(){
			console.log(this.args);
		}
	});

var myInstance = MyFactory({ hello : 'world'}).spewArgs() // outputs {hello : 'world'} to the console

Objects created with base.createChild() have a number of static methods which are used to build your factory.

addStaticMethods

var Foo = base.createChild();

Foo.addStaticMethods({
	secretOfLifeUniverseAndEverything : function(){
		return 42;
	}
});

Foo.secretOfLifeTheUniverseAndEverything() === 42 // TRUE