MayBee

Safe chaining of object properties and functions using ES2015 Proxy.

• npm: npm install maybee --save

Getting Started

Note: Requires Proxy support.

import {safeguard, isUndefined, isNull} from 'maybee';

const person = safeguard({ name: 'Adam', age: null });

console.log(person.name); // Adam
console.log(isNull(person.age)) // true
console.log(isUndefined(person.getNames().firstName)) // true
console.log(isUndefined(person.with.a.long.non.existent.property)) // true

See unit tests for further examples — however considering a primitive isn't returned, then you can continue chaining as required — this is in anticipation of an eventual value, and therefore primitives are returned when they exist.

Undefined!

Once MayBee finds a primitive value in your object, then all of the Proxy witchery is stopped from there on in.

For example, given the person above, we can extend infinitely on unknown properties/functions, but as soon as a primitive has been reached, then normal JavaScript rules are abided by:

// √
console.log(person.with.an.unknown().property.and.a().function.or.two);

// TypeError: person.name.on is undefined √
console.log(person.name.on.a.known().property);

This behaviour makes it easier to stick closely with the JavaScript spec — otherwise MayBee would have to introduce a non-standard function for when you wanted the value rather than another Proxy — such as getValue() — ugh!

Example

Try out the interactive console example on Heroku!