monkey

monkey is a small JavaScript library, written in CoffeeScript for monkey patching dependent functionality into objects. Dependency Injection (DI) comes from the object-oriented programming world.

After looking at a few patterns for doing DI for node.js development I eventually settled on monkey-patching to be the most idiomatic javascript way.

API

monkey provides two core functions:

• monkey.patch
• monkey.unpatch

Here is an example where monkey will be most likely used, in testing.

class User 
    save: () -> # real functionality
    find: (id) -> # look up the user

user = new User
monkey.patch user, 
    save: () -> true
    find: () -> new User 

... run some tests ... 

# revert user back to normal
monkey.unpatch user

# do some other change to user
monkey.patch user, 
    save: () -> false
    find: () -> null

... etc ..