protoblast

Protoblast

Extend native objects with helpful methods to speed up development, or leave the native objects alone and use bound methods.

Installation

$ npm install protoblast

Features

• Targeted for node.js & optimal performance, but perfectly usable in the browser
• A way to use all new methods without modifying native prototypes

Todo

• Write documentation (currently a WIP)
• Write more unit tests (coverage is currently around 60%)
• Finish browser unit tests
• ...

Use

You can use Protoblast in 2 ways.

Modify the native prototypes

This is the easiest way to use all the new methods & shims. Ideal for internal or big projects.

require('protoblast')();

// Now new native methods have been added
var arr = [5,9,3,4,1];

arr.flashsort();
// [1, 3, 4, 5, 9]

Use bound functions

You can also get an object that has pre-bound all the new methods, without modifying anything.

It's more verbose, but should be the way to use Protoblast in redistributable modules.

var Blast = require('protoblast')(false);

// Now new native methods have been added
var arr = [5,9,3,4,1];

Blast.Bound.Array.flashsort(arr);
// [1, 3, 4, 5, 9]

Changelog

0.1.5 (2014-12-14)

• Make sure Function.series does not fire the callback multiple times
• Modify Array#unique to allow a path be checked for duplicates
• Add Array#sortByPath to save the user from writing unwieldy sort functions
• Add the wrapper created with Function.create to the source function
• Add Informer.isInformer & Iterator.isIterator static methods
• Add Math.overlaps() to see if 2 ranges overlap
• Add String#normalizeAcronyms, which removes dots from acronyms