builtin-types

builtin-types

Collection of JavaScript's built-in Types e.g. String, Object, Array, etc. in various forms. A building block for creating JavaScript smoketesting tools.

Provides

• All built-in types as functions
• All built-in types as basic instances
• Built-in types' Prototypes
• Factory functions for each type (normalizes new & default args requirements)
• • more

Excludes types which are not suppored in current environment e.g. Promises won't appear in older versions of node.

Why

Smoketesting an API requires seeing what it will do in various scenarios. A good starting point is seeing how it performs when it's up against all the various builtin datatypes.

Installation

npm install builtin-types

API

types

The default export is an Array of all the Type functions.

var types = require('builtin-types')

console.log(types.length) // => 27
console.log(types)
/*
  [Function: String],
  [Function: Array],
  [Function: Number],
  [Function: RegExp],
  [Function: Object],
  [Function: Boolean],
  [Function: Date],
  [Function: Function],
  [Function: ArrayBuffer],
  [Function: DataView],
  etc
*/

types.names

An Array of names of the built-in types as Strings.

types.types

A map of Type names to Type functions.

console.log(types.types)
/*
{
  String: [Function: String],
  Array: [Function: Array],
  Number: [Function: Number],
  RegExp: [Function: RegExp],
  Object: [Function: Object],
  Boolean: [Function: Boolean],
  Date: [Function: Date],
  Function: [Function: Function],
  Symbol: [Function],
  ... etc
}
 */

types.instances

An Array of instances, one of each built-in Type. e.g. includes an Array, a Date, a String, a Promise, etc.

types.prototypes

An Array of prototypes for the built-in types.

types.factory(Type, ...args)

A function that takes a built-in Type and will return a new instance of Type. Will forward any arguments you supply. Knows how to construct built-ins that require arguments.

types.factory(String)  // creates a String
types.factory(Number)  // creates a Number
types.factory(Promise) // creates a Promise
types.factory(Buffer)  // creates a Buffer

License

MIT