Oliver Steele has posted on three small JavaScript libraries that he carries around in his toolbox as he goes from project to project.
Fluently — Construction Kit for Chainable Methods
Fluently lets you build chainable methods, which Oliver used to build a mock test framework.
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var o = Fluently.make(function(define) {
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define(‘fn1’, function() {console.info(‘called fn1’)});
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define(‘fn2’, function() {console.info(‘called fn2’)});
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define.empty(‘and’);
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define.alias(‘fn3’, ‘fn1’);
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define.modifier(‘not’);
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});
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o.fn3(); // same as o.fn1()
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o.fn1().and.fn2() // same as o.fn1().fn2()
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o.fn1().and.not.fn2() // options.not is set when fn2 is called
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MOP JS
MOP JS defines utilities for JavaScript metaprogramming. You don’t think you need it until you try asynchronous programming, where some methods don’t have enough information to operate until the response to another method’s asynchronous request have returned.
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new MOP.MethodReplacer(object, methods)
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MOP.withMethodOverridesCallback(object, methods, fn)
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MOP.withDeferredMethods(object, methodNames, fn)
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Collections JS
Collections JS defines framework-independent JavaScript collection methods, for use in browser JavaScript and in ActionScript / OpenLaszlo.
The Array and String methods extend the class prototype; the Hash methods use a proxying wrapper to avoid prototype pollution. The methods with the same names as the ECMAScript 1.6+ extensions have the same spec as those; the ones with the same name as prototype extensions have the same spec as those in the Prototype library; and there’s a few odds and ends such as String#capitalize.
I use this when I don’t want the overhead of Prototype, or want to use these functions in an environment that Prototype doesn’t run on, such as OpenLaszlo. It has some overlap with Functional, but isn’t nearly so radical — this can be an advantage.
Thanks for sharing Oliver!
