tinyiter

"An easy way to iterate and manipulate with javascript objects and arrays."

Very lightweight library (6KB 🔨) to manipulate javascript objects and arrays. No 3rd party dependencies, no bullshit ❤️. Inspired by Immutable.js Seq

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Features
• Usage
• Documentation
• License

Installation

Add library into your project:

$ yarn install tinyiter

Usage

import TinyIter from 'tinyiter';

TinyIter({a:1, b:3, c:5}).filter((e) => e >= 3).toObject();  // {b:3, c:5}
TinyIter([1,3,5]).filter((e) => e >= 3).toArray();  // [3,5]

Features

Embraces ES2015

Tinyiter supports all JavaScript environments, including legacy browsers (even IE8). However it also takes advantage of features added to JavaScript in ES2015, the latest standard version of JavaScript, including Iterators, Arrow Functions, Classes, and Modules. It's inspired by the native Map and Set collections added to ES2015.

Note: All examples in the Documentation are presented in ES2015. To run in all browsers, they need to be translated to ES5.

// ES2015
const mapped = foo.map(x => x * x);
// ES5
var mapped = foo.map(function (x) { return x * x; });

Has the native support for ES2015 iterators.

import TinyIter from 'tinyiter';
const collection = TinyIter([1,5,7,15]);

// for..of literal
for(let e of collection){
    /// ... do any magic here
}

//array literal
let asArr = [...collection];

Chaining the functions

The tinyiter sequence is intended to be chained:

const e = TinyIter({a:1, b:3, c:6, e:10}).filter(e => e >= 6 ).map(e => e * 2 ).toObject(); // {c:12, e:20}

Documentation

TinyIter()

Creates a Sequence.

TinyIter(iter: I): TinyIter
TinyIter(obj: {[key: string]: V}): TinyIter
TinyIter(): TinyIter

Can be constructed with either of the:

• array
• object
• instance of the TinyIter

Returns instance of TinyIter

forEach()

The sideEffect is executed for every entry.

forEach(
    sideEffect: (value: V, key: K, iter: this) => M,
    context?: any
): undefined

example:

import TinyIter from 'tinyiter';
TinyIter([ 1, 2 ]).forEach((value, key) => { console.log(key+" = "+value ); }

map()

Returns a new TinyIter with values passed through a mapper function.

map(
    mapper: (value: V, key: K, iter: this) => M,
    context?: any
): TinyIter

example

import TinyIter from 'tinyiter';
TinyIter([ 1, 2 ]).map((value, key) => key * value * 2)

reduce()

Reduces the Collection to a value by calling the reducer for every entry in the Collection and passing along the reduced value.

reduce(
reducer: (reduction: R, value: V, key: K, iter: this) => R,
initialReduction: R,
context?: any
): TinyIter
reduce(
reducer: (reduction: R, value: V, key: K, iter: this) => R,
initialReduction: R,
context?: any
): TinyIter

If initialReduction is not provided, the first item in the Collection will be used.

See Array#reduce.

toObject()

Shallowly converts the Collection to an JavaScript Object.

toObject(): {[key: string]: V}

toArray()

Shallowly converts the Collection to an JavaScript Array.

toArray(): Array<V> | Array<[K, V]>

filter()

Returns a new TinyIter with only the values for which the predicate function returns true.

filter(
    predicate: (value: V, key: K, iter: this) => boolean,
    context?: any
): TinyIter

concat()

Returns a new Collection of the same type with other values and collection-like concatenated to this one.

concat(...valuesOrCollections: Array<any>): TinyIter

note:

This method has variable argument length with each of them can be any of those which are initiatized in the TinyIter constructor.

size()

Returns number of the elements in the Collection.

size(): number

find()

Returns the first value for which the predicate returns true.

find(
    predicate: (value: V, key: K, iter: this) => boolean,
    context?: any
): any

findIndex()

Returns the first index for which the predicate returns true. If the callback never returns a truthy value or the array's length is 0, findIndex returns -1.

findIndex(
    predicate: (value: V, key: K, iter: this) => boolean,
    context?: any
): any

findLast()

Returns the last value for which the predicate returns true.

findLast(
    predicate: (value: V, key: K, iter: this) => boolean,
    context?: any
): any

mapValues()

Remap the each entry key and value to different one.

mapValues(
    mapper: (Array<key: K, value: V>) => Array<key: K, value: V>,
    context?: any
): TinyIter

import TinyIter from 'tinyiter';
TinyIter({ 'a': 1, 'b' : 2 }).mapValues(([key, value]) => {return ['mapped_'+k, value*2];} );

sort()

Returns a new Collection of the same type which includes the same entries, sorted by using a comparator.

sort(
    comparator?: (valueA: V, valueB: V) => number
): TinyIter

If a comparator is not provided, a default comparator uses < and >.

comparator(valueA, valueB):

• Returns 0 if the elements should not be swapped.
• Returns -1 (or any negative number) if valueA comes before valueB
• Returns 1 (or any positive number) if valueA comes after valueB
• Is pure, i.e. it must always return the same value for the same pair of values.

Example:

import TinyIter from 'tinyiter';
TinyIter({ "c": 3, "a": 1, "b": 2 }).sort((a, b) => {
  if (a < b) { return -1; }
  if (a > b) { return 1; }
  if (a === b) { return 0; }
});

sortBy()

Like sort, but also accepts a comparatorValueMapper which allows for sorting by more sophisticated means:

sortBy(
    comparatorValueMapper: (value: V, key: K, iter: this) => C,
    comparator?: (valueA: C, valueB: C) => number
): TinyIter

Example:

hitters.sortBy(hitter => hitter.avgHits)

isIndexed()

Returns boolean indicating if the wrapped element is index\ed from 0 (array or its equivalent).

isIndexed(): boolean

isKeyed()

Returns boolean indicating if the wrapped element is keyed (object or its equivalent).

isKeyed(): boolean

toIndexed()

Returns new TinyIter with collection transformed to the indexed version.

toIndexed(): TinyIter

note: All elements are now indexed ( incrementally from 0 ).

toKeyed()

Returns new TinyIter with collection transformed to the keyed version.

toKeyed(): TinyIter

toRaw()

Returns internal representation of Collection.

toRaw(): Array | {[key: string]: V}

Returns is either Array ( if the Collection is Indexed ) or an object ( if the Collection is Keyed ).

first()

Get the first element from the collection.

first(): any

Contribute

Tinyiter is FOSS project, so you're welcome to be one of our developers and making the library even better.

Testing

We are using the Chai Assertion Library to help our library fully tested stable.

Contribution

Use GitHub issues for requests.

We actively welcome pull requests, feel free to contribute.

Licence

This project is licenced by Apache License 2.0.