Foibles

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Foibles is a library for composing JavaScript and TypeScript classes using a mixin pattern.

Foibles is available on NPM: npm install foibles

Creating mixins

Mixins are functions that creates a class that have a dynamic super class. This makes it so that things as super work as intended and that mixins can override functions in their parent class.

import { toMixin } from 'foibles';

const SomeMixin = toMixin(base => class MixinClass extends base {
  doMixinStuff() {
    console.log('mixin did stuff');
  }
});

For TypeScript you should also define the type, to enable you to build functions that consume any object with the mixin:

import { Mixin } from 'foibles';

type SomeMixin = Mixin<typeof SomeMixin>;

If you want to extend a specific class you can use typeof BaseClass to do so:

const SomeMixin = toMixin((base: typeof BaseClass) => class extends base {
  ...
})

Creating a base class

To create an extendable class call toExtendable:

import { toExtendable } from 'foibles';

const BaseType = toExtendable(class BaseClass {
  doStuff() {
    console.log('base class did stuff');
  }
});

For TypeScript you should also define the type, to enable you to build functions that consume the base type:

import { Extendable } from 'foibles';

type BaseType = Extendable<typeof BaseType>;

Using mixins

BaseType will be enhanced with a static with function that provides the mixin functionality. To sub class BaseType and at the same time use SomeMixin:

class SubClass extends BaseType.with(SomeMixin) {

  doStuff() {
    // Allow super class to do stuff
    super.doStuff();

    // doMixinStuff was provided via SomeMixin
    this.doMixinStuff();
  }
}

Use instanceof to check if an object has a mixin:

const object = new SubClass();
console.log(object instanceof SubClass);

Note: It's possible to use instanceof only if Symbol.hasInstance is supported. Check compatibility at MDN

Creating a mixin depending on other mixins

This library supports a mixin to depend on other mixins by applying them as needed in the mixin function:

// Define the first mixin
const Debug = toMixin(base => class Debug extends base {
  debug(...args) {
    console.log(...args);
  }
});

// Create a mixin that applies the Debug mixin to base
const Mixin = toMixin(base => class Mixin extends base.with(Debug) {
  ...
});