fi - Functional conditionals

With fi you can ignore the language constructs and write all your conditional logic in a functional way.

usage with Typescript

import { fi } from 'fi'

const myVar: string = fi(false, 'The dragon')
  .elseif(
    () => 1 == 2,
    () => 'Vampire',
  )
  .else('Wargulf')
  .ret()

usage with javascript / CommonJS

const { fi } = require('fi')

const myVar = fi(false, 'The dragon')
  .elseif(
    () => 1 == 2,
    () => 'Vampire',
  )
  .else('Wargulf')
  .ret()

Installation

The library is distributed as an npm module:

npm install fi

or

yarn add fi

Examples

Basic if statement

const getIfTrue = fi(true, 'flower puppy')

// getIfTrue() returns "flower puppy"

We can make it more interesting and add an elseif & else statements:

const getIfTrue = fi(false, 'flower puppy')
  .elseif(() => false, 'something else')
  .else('space pedals')

// getIfTrue() returns 'space pedals'

Even more interesting using an if-else statement as well:

With a half completed if statment, we can also start chaining more stuff to it later

const myif = fi(false, 'flower puppy').elseif(false, 'human skin')

// do some other stuff, and add to the chain:
const myVar = myif.else('crapware')

// myVar is "crapware"

Any value passed into any fi conditional or return value can be a function

Functions that don't meet a conditional are never executed, and conditionals that dont' meet a condition (like an else if conditional in an if statement evaluated as true) will also never get executed.

Ternary

The ternary variant is not chainable and does not return a function

import { ternary } from 'fi

const myVar = ternary(() => 1 > 4), () => 15, () => 42)

// myVar is 42

Switch statement using an object:

var sw = require('fi').sw

var myVar = sw('Rainbow', {
  red: 'Redish',
  green: 'Greenish',
  blue: 'Blueish',
  default: 'Some color',
})

// myVar is "Some color"

Switch statement using an array (so you can use functions as your keys):

var myVar = sw("Rainbow", [
    () => "red", "Redish",
    () => "green", () => "Random green",
    () => "blue", "Blueish",
    () => "Some color" // our default
})

// myVar is "Some color"

But.. WHY?!

1. I don't know
2. It could potentially lead to some interesting use cases

Author:

Arnor Heidar Sigurdsson @arnorhs on Twitter

License

MIT