@glideapps/ts-necessities
Advanced tools
These are some very basic functions and classes that we use at Glide to make coding with TypeScript easier and safer.
To add the package to your own project:
$ npm install @glideapps/ts-necessities
fp-ts is a library for functional programming in TypeScript. It provides a wide range of utilities for working with functional programming concepts, such as monads, functors, and applicatives. Compared to @glideapps/ts-necessities, fp-ts offers a more comprehensive set of functional programming tools and abstractions.
io-ts is a runtime type system for IO decoding/encoding in TypeScript. It allows you to define codecs for validating and decoding data at runtime. While @glideapps/ts-necessities focuses on utility types and functions, io-ts is specialized in runtime type validation and decoding.
utility-types is a collection of utility types for TypeScript. It provides a variety of type transformations and utility types to enhance type safety and reduce boilerplate. Similar to @glideapps/ts-necessities, it aims to simplify common TypeScript tasks but with a broader range of utility types.
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Small utilities to make life with TypeScript easier
We found that @glideapps/ts-necessities demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 30 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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