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

Documentation

For more information and API documentation, visit the Protoblast homepage.

Getting Started

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 and execute the returned function
require('protoblast')();

var arr = [5,9,3,4,1];

// New native methods, like flashsort, will have been added
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.

// Require protoblast and execute the returned function with `false` as parameter
var Blast = require('protoblast')(false);

var arr = [5,9,3,4,1];

// Native objects will have been left alone, they can be accessed like this:
Blast.Bound.Array.flashsort(arr);
// [1, 3, 4, 5, 9]

Changelog

0.3.7 (2017-07-03)

• Added Object.isSelfContained, which returns true in case of Date, RegExp, String objects, ...
• Object.merge will now treat RegExps and Dates as a single variable, and not as an object that also needs to be merged
• Added Math.calculateDistance to calculate the distance between 2 sets of coordinates
• Added Array#shuffle, which shuffles an array in place
• Added SeededRng class for random numbers that repeat
• Added get_stream option to Request#http_request, which returns the correct output stream (same res object or gzip) instead of the body
• Blast.fetch is now also available in the browser
• Object.isPlainObject will now return true for objects without a prototype
• Redirected requests will no longer fail when being redirected to a path without hostname
• String#fowler should now produce correct hashes
• Make Crypto.randomBytes return an Int8Array in the browser