part-native

generate helpful methods from native objects using _part_

Why?

• With one small lib, you can use part to safely expose all available methods of an object. This can help make code more modular, functional, and maintainable.
• When passing functions as first-class objects, we often lose the method receiver (thisArg). part-native methods are bound to their context or will allow you to curry the context.
• Array methods will work on ArrayLike objects (including Arguments objects) so your code will contain less type checking and slicing of arguments.
• By using part-native at startup, your application will have cached versions of the functions you need, immune to attempts to hack the native object prototypes.
• Turn your own simple prototypes into part-style method collections.

Getting started

Installation:

npm install --save-dev part-native

Usage:

Get a reference to a bound function on a native object.

var log = require( 'part-native' )( 'console' ).log;
[1,2,3].map( log );

or

var map_ = require( 'Array.map_' );
var logAll = map_( log );
logAll( [1,2,3] );

Get a reference to a collection of methods.

var partArray = require( 'part-native' )( 'Array' );
var sum = partArray.reduce_( add );

or use your own objects

function Klass( id ){
  this.id = id;
}
Klass.prototype.test = function ( msg ) {
  console.log( msg + this.id );
};
var partKlass = require( 'part-native' )( 'Klass', Klass );
var klassMsg = partKlass.test_( 'hi from ' );
klassMsg( new Klass( 1 ) );