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Clones non native JavaScript functions, or references native functions.
Clones non native JavaScript functions, or references native functions.
npm install clone-function
https://npmjs.org/package/clone-function Source code available at: https://github.com/matthewkastor/clone-function/
var cloneFunction = require('clone-function');
var func = function () {
return 'wee';
};
var copied = func;
var cloned = cloneFunction(func);
console.log(func === copied); // true
console.log(func === cloned); // false
console.log(func() === cloned()); // true
In the browser, include ./browser/clone-function_web.js
in your page. cloneFunction
will
be available globally in your page.
For full documentation see the docs folder. For examples see the example folder.
Tests can be run from the root of this package with
npm test
There are several other scripts listed in package.json for development and
hacking on this module. They can be run with npm run-script
followed by the
scripts property corresponding to the script you want to run. For example,
given a script called buildDocs
, it could be run from the package root by:
npm run-script buildDocs
Matthew Kastor atropa
matthewkastor@gmail.com https://plus.google.com/100898583798552211130
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Clones non native JavaScript functions, or references native functions.
The npm package clone-function receives a total of 6,271 weekly downloads. As such, clone-function popularity was classified as popular.
We found that clone-function demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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