fairmont

Fairmont

A collection of useful CoffeeScript/JavaScript functions. These include functions to help with functional programming, arrays, objects, and more. Fairmont is inspired by Underscore, EssentialJS, and prelude.coffee.

Why Fairmont?

Fairmont offers a combination of features we couldn't find in existing libraries:

• Functional programming friendly
• ES6 aware (in particular, uses promises and generators for async operations)
• Comprehensive

Fairmont is also a literate programming project—the documentation, code, examples, and tests are together, making it easy to see what a function does, how it does it, and why it does it that particular way.

Functional Programming Friendly

Fairmont is built on a functional programming foundation, including implementations for currying, partial application, and composition. Most functions are curried by default and designed with composition in mind.

ES6 Aware

Fairmont wraps common asynchronous operations so they can be used in yield expressions. For example, here's how you can read a file using Fairmont.

content = yield read "war-and-peace.txt"

Comprehensive

One of the nice things about Underscore is that it offers a lot of useful functions. Many common tasks can be written entirely using Underscore functions. Fairmont has a similar ambition. While there's nothing wrong with specialized libraries, there are times when you just want a good Swiss Army Knife.

List of Functions

Core Functions

• API Reference

identity, wrap, curry, _, partial, flip,
compose, pipe, variadic, unary, binary, ternary

Logical Functions

• API Reference

f_and, f_or, negate, f_eq, f_neq

Numeric Functions

• API Reference

gt, lt, gte, lte, add, sub, mul, div, mod,
even, odd, min, max

Type Functions

• API Reference

deep_equal, type, is_type, instance_of,
  is_string, is_function

Array functions

• API Reference

cat, slice, first, second, third, last, rest,
  includes, unique_by, unique, uniq, dupes, union, intersection,
  remove, shuffle

Iterator Functions

• API Reference

is_iterable, iterator, is_iterator, iterate,
  collect, map, fold, foldr, select, reject, any, all, zip, unzip,
  assoc, project, flatten, partition, take, leave, skip, sample

Crypto Functions

• API Reference

md5, base64, base64url

File System Functions

• API Reference

exists, stat, read, readdir, read_stream, read_block, lines,
write, chdir, rm, rmdir

Object Functions

• API Reference

include/extend, merge, clone, pluck, property, delegate, bind, detach

String Functions

• API Reference

capitalize, title_case, camel_case, underscored,
dashed, plain_text, html_escape, w

Miscellaneous Functions

• API Reference

times, shell, sleep, timer, memoize, abort

Status

Fairmont is still under heavy development and is alpha quality, meaning you should probably not use it in your production code.

Roadmap

You can get an idea of what we're planning by looking at the issues list. If you want something that isn't there, and you think it would be a good addition, please open a ticket.

Our overarching goals for the project include:

• Making the library more comprehensive

• Improving the tests and documentation

• Ensuring that we can use an FP style in real-world scenarios

• Introducing an idiom for supporting lazy evaluation