es6-mixin-nano

ES6 Mixin / polyfill tool

As minimal as possible modular class mixin / polyfill utility. Size report is at the bottom of this document at the reports section, just roll down

Modularity means you can include only required to you part of this library into your application, so no dumb data will be included

What about performance. Runtime overhead is zero. Library code executes only once on application startup (normally. But you may to create classes (not instances, exactly classes) in the runtime) and looks has no place to stuck

Works fine:

• static methods and attributes
• properties
• regular methods

Limitations:

• Instance attributes does not work
• Arrow function methods does not work
• super in the mixin class does not work
• No magic. Just copy attributes

API Reference

mix

High-level API. Works the same as mixin of es6-class-mixin and mix of mixin-es6. Look there for more examples

Difference is in method resolve order, explaination is in example

Importing

import { mix } from "es6-mixin-nano";

OR

import mix from "es6-mixin-nano/src/mix";

Usage example

class MyClass extends mix(Base, FooMixin, BarMixin, BazMixin) { /* --- */ }

Method resolve order

MyClass => FooMixin => BarMixin => BazMixin => Base

It means if you define the same method in FooMixin and BazMixin, MyClass will have FooMixin's implementation

injectMany

Mid-level API, used by mix. injectMany handles method resolve order and uses injectMixin as worker. Injects mixins into the target class in-place

Importing

import { injectMany } from "es6-mixin-nano";

OR

import injectMany from "es6-mixin-nano/src/injectMany";

Usage example

injectMany(Base, FooMixin, BarMixin, BazMixin);

Method resolve order

FooMixin => BarMixin => BazMixin => Base

injectMixin

Mid-level API, used by injectMany, handles only one mixin but makes it perfectly. Injects mixin behavior into target class in-place. Besides own given mixin's attributes injects into target class all attributes found in given mixin's parent classes

Importing

import { injectMixin } from "es6-mixin-nano";

OR

import injectMixin from "es6-mixin-nano/src/injectMixin";

Usage example

class MapViaForOf {
  map(func) {
    const result = [];
    const i = 0;

    for (const item of this) {
      const value = func(item, i);
      result.push(value);
      i++;
    }

    return result;
  }
}

injectMixin(Set, MapViaForOf);

class LengthViaSize {
  // Unify API
  get length() {
    return this.size;
  }
}

injectMixin(Set, LengthViaSize);
injectMixin(Map, LengthViaSize);

parentList

Low-level introspection API. Returns Array of parent classes including given

Importing

import { parentList } from "es6-mixin-nano";

OR

import parentList from "es6-mixin-nano/src/parentList";

Usage example

// I'll publish the package which use this API

Parent resolve order

Here is a test example:

class A {};
class B extends A {};
class C extends B {};
class D extends C {};

// parentList(D) === [A, B, C, D]

Similar packages and difference

Both of them does not handle correctly mixins which are subclassed from parent class

Both of them provide high-level API the same as my mix method, so by inspiration of them I've create it, test it, but never use it :)

Both of them are dense and ignore SRP. It means you can't use only part of their's functionality -- all or nothing

es6-class-mixin

True minimal implementation, but does not support static class attributes / functions and properties

mixin-es6

Nice one, works fine with properties and static attributes and methods

Reports

Test coverage report

File	% Stmts	% Branch	% Funcs	% Lines
All files	100	100	100	100
index.js	0	0	0	0
injectMany.js	100	100	100	100
injectMixin.js	100	100	100	100
mix.js	100	100	100	100
parentList.js	100	100	100	100

Size cost report

Approximate cost of including es6-mixin-nano into your application bundle. You may view full report via running npm run sizereport. Keep in mind I did not extract full module code and check only exported function source code size

API Name	Size (bytes)
injectMany	53
injectMixin	74
mix	80
parentList	74