queue-lit
This package is a tiny queue data structure in case you Array#push()
or
Array#shift()
on large arrays very often.
Array#shift()
has linear time complexity O(n)
while Queue#push()
has
constant time complexity O(1)
.
Installation
$ npm i queue-lit
$ yarn add queue-lit
Usage
import { Queue } from 'queue-lit';
const queue = new Queue();
queue.push('Hello');
queue.push('World');
console.log(queue.size);
console.log(...queue);
console.log(queue.pop());
console.log(queue.pop());
API
queue = new Queue()
The instance is an Iterable
, which means you can iterate over the queue
front to back with a for...of
loop, or use spreading to convert the queue to
an array.
.push(value)
Adds one element to the end of the queue and returns the new length of
the queue.
This method changes the size of the queue.
.pop()
Pop removes the last element from the queue and returns that element.
This method changes the size of the queue.
Returns undefined
if the queue is empty.
.clear()
Clears the queue and removes all elements.
This method changes the size of the queue.
.size
Static method that returns the size of the queue.
Development
(1) Install dependencies
$ npm i
(2) Run initial validation
$ ./Taskfile.sh validate
(3) Start developing. See ./Taskfile.sh
for more tasks to
help you develop.