fairmont

Fairmont

Fairmont is a family of JavaScript libraries for functional reactive programming. Fairmont takes full advantage of ES6+ features like iterators (including async iterators), generators, and promises. Inspired by libraries like Underscore and many others, Fairmont features include:

• reactive programming support through async iterators
• lazy evaluation on collection operations via iterators
• core functional operations, like currying and composition
• bridge functions for integrating with OOP-based libraries
• common file and stream based operations
• streams and event emitters modeled as asynchronous iterators
• seamless integration between synchronous and asynchronous operations
• … and more!

Components

This is the main library for Fairmont. It includes/requires several others:

• fairmont-core - support functions for currying, partial application, function composition, and helper functions
• fairmont-reactive - Reducer functions, iterator functions, and functional reactive programming
• fairmont-multimethods - CLOS-style multimethods in CoffeeScript (more detail on our blog)
• fairmont-filesystem - filesystem functions
• fairmont-process - functions for Unix processes
• fairmont-crypto - basic cryptographic functions
• fairmont-helpers - a range of functions which make it easier to work with arrays, strings, types, and other fundamental building blocks

Examples

You can get a feel for what Fairmont can do for you by checking out the examples.

Reference

Fairmont uses literate programming, so each source file doubles as documentation. Please see the source directory for more.

Status

Fairmont is still under heavy development and is beta 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.