core-lang

Classes that should be in the JavaScript language itself. The collections have a rich API to work with the data, full promises support, well written documentation and TypeScript definitions.

Usage

Available classes:

Collections

All collections inherit from XIterable. It returns an iterator and offers the classic Array methods of iteration, also filter, map/reduce, etc. with the same signature. In addition some methods are added (some of them inspired from groovy) to make chaining more easier (such as groupBy, transform, first or butFirst). Last but not least the collections have full Promises support, and allow processing of their content using the Promise API. For example, assuming that our collection contains promises, we can:

list([1,2,3,4])
    .map(Promise.resolve, Promise) // make them promises
    .mapPromise(function(it) {
        // mapPromise first resolves the items in the collection,
        // then it applies the mapping function
        // all the items are resolved at his stage, so we have the initial
        // array, being iterated over. We create new promises.
        return Promise.resolve(it * it);
    }).then(function(collection) {
        // not only the value before mapping gets resolved, but also
        // the result gets first Promise.resolved and only after
        // added back into the collection
        assert.equal([1,4,9,16], collection.asArray());
    });

Furthermore since the collections are written in TypeScript, the module embeds the .d.ts file, so you get full autocomplete and documentation support from the IDE (pictured Visual Studio Code)

Extras

format

formatis a very simple string formatting method that uses positional parameters in the spirit of .NET:

var format = require("core-lang/lib/stringUtils").format;
var text = format("{0} {1}!", "Hello", "World");
console.log(text); // will output 'Hello World!'

reflect

reflect, as its name implies, offers some utility methods that allow reflection operations on objects and functions. Here is a sample of reflect displaying its own API:

var reflect = require("core-lang/lib/reflect"),
    format = require("core-lang/lib/stringUtils").format;
// reflect displaying its own API
reflect.functions(reflect).forEach(function(method) {
    console.log(format("function {0}({1});",
        method.key,
        reflect.argumentNames(method.value)
            .join(", ")
        ));
});

This will output:

function functionName(f);
function functions(obj);
function argumentNames(f);
function create(clazz, args);
function invoke(f, args);

ChangeLog

• v1.1.1 2015-09-15 Collections have the types correctly exported, and the Promise is the ES6 implementation.
• v1.1.0 2015-09-10 Exported the reflect methods, and string format.
• v1.0.1 2015-09-05 Added a bunch of mocha tests. (unit test)
• v1.0.0 2015-08-31 Initial release.