pick-one-by-weight

pick-one-by-weight chooses a key string from an Object based on the weight of its value against all other values in the Object

Object is what the type is called in javascript, but most commonly the structure we are looking into is called a HashMap or HashTable.

install

npm install pick-one-by-weight

examples

var pickOneByWeight = require('pick-one-by-weight')
var p = { a: 2, b: 3, c: 5 }
console.log(pickOneByWeight(p))
// output is a 20% of the time, b 30% of the time, and c 50% of the time.

development

First clone by doing: git clone git clone https://github.com/swang/pick-one-by-weight.git

Then npm install with devDependencies. npm install --dev

Then run babel-watch npm run babel-watch

Note: If you want to use GitHub, you must fork this repo over to your account, then change the git url from my repo to yours. You can then make commits to your version, push the changes, and then make a Pull Request.

license

ISC

author

Shuan Wang ([email protected])