oversmart

Oversmart is a popular JavaScript map/reduce library for higher-order functional programming built on parameter name overloading.

Oversmart enables you to write code like:

const smart = require('oversmart');

smart(add => 1)([1, 2, 3]); // returns [2, 3, 4]
smart(mul => 2)([1, 2, 3]); // returns [2, 4, 6]

With parameter name overloading, oversmart is able to deduce and apply the correct operation based solely on the parameter name.

Getting Started

To install oversmart, simply run:

npm install --save oversmart

To use oversmart, import it with:

const smart = require('oversmart');

We can now perform operations on collections, e.g.

smart(add => 1)([1, 2, 3]); // returns [2, 3, 4]

We can also map over a collection:

smart(map => 7)([1, 2, 3]);       // returns [7, 7, 7]
smart(map => map + 2)([1, 2, 3]); // returns [3, 4, 5]

Oversmart even supports flat mapping:

smart(flatMap => [1, 2])([1, 2, 3]);  // returns [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2]

Implementation Details

Parameter name overloading is based on the ability of JavaScript to produce the source code of a function value with the toString method. Using esprima we are then able to obtain the abstract syntax tree of the function value, inspect its parameter name, and dispatch on it! Simply brilliant!

Testimonials

Since I started using Oversmart with Ramda my productivity has increased logarithmically!

Author of popular React library.

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We believe that the challenges posed by contemporary IoT products and the prevalence of blockchain technology mandates the necessity for bleeding-edge web-scale parameter-name overloading.